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Why do prices differ across stores? : differential competition environments and their price impacts

Klein, Gordon Jochem; Siebert, Ralph Bernd - 2024

exerts the second-largest price effect, followed by Store Competition Within Local Markets. Moreover, retailers operating … competition environments affect product prices. Using big data, we find that price variations are caused mainly by differential … competitive environments. More specifically, we find that Brand Competition Within Stores exerts the largest downward pressure on …

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

greater retail competition. These eﬀects mitigate distortions from fee discrimination and improve welfare. In terms of policy …

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Does reference pricing drive out generic competition in pharmaceutical markets? : evidence from a policy reform

Brekke, Kurt R.; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

more agressive, which triggers price competition and potentially deters entry by generic producers. To investigate the … branded and generic drug prices and branded market shares. Despite fiercer price competition, the number of generic producers …

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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests

Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2012

This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...

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Competitive imperfect price discrimination and market power

Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019 - This version: November 2019

Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can ‘profile’ consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...

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Income inequality and export prices across countries

Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013

This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...

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Complexity, efficiency, and fairness of multi-product monopoly pricing

Miravete, Eugenio J.; Seim, Katja; Thurk, Jeff - 2014

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...

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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination

Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016

We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...

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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets

Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014

voluntarily under PWYW. Furthermore, to see how competition affects the viability of PWYW, we implement markets in which a PWYW …

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Quality differentiation in durable goods monopoly always yields strictly positive profits

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van - 2021

A monopolist producing vertically differentiated durable goods can offer in each period a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly, thanks to the ability to produce differentiated durable...

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