This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …

regulatory tools – a data minimization principle and a price cap – that can be used by data protection agencies and competition …

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 … prices. A 10 percent increase in the number of brands reduces prices by about 10 percent. Product Competition Within Stores …

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 …

uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition … the collusive level. Furthermore, competition in supply functions aggregates the dispersed information of firms (the …A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their …

A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function …. Price-cost margins and bid shading are affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper …

subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the …