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Private information, price discrimination, and collusion

Peiseler, Florian; Rasch, Alexander; Shekhar, Shiva - 2018

We analyze firms' ability to sustain collusion in a setting in which horizontally differentiated firms can price-discriminate based on private information regarding consumers' preferences. In particular, firms receive private signals which can be noisy (e.g., big data predictions). We find that...

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Pricing behavior in partial cartels

Odenkirchen, Johannes - 2018

communication. Using a repeated, asymmetric capacity constraint price game, we show that, in line with theory, a partial cartel is … sufficient to increase market prices for all firms. Moreover, we find that prices of cartel insiders and outsiders are not … necessarily on the same level what contradicts common theoretical predictions. This is because communication allows cartel members …

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A note on consumer flexibility, data quality and collusion

Hasnas, Irina - 2014

In this note we analyze the sustainability of collusion in a game of repeated interaction where firms can price discriminate among consumers based on two types of customer data. This work is related to Liu and Serfes (2007) and Sapi and Suleymanova (2013). Following Sapi and Suleymanova we...

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Algorithmic price recommendations and collusion : experimental evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Werner, Tobias - 2023

This paper investigates the collusive and competitive effects of algorithmic price recommendations on market outcomes. These recommendations are often non-binding and common in many markets, especially on online platforms. We develop a theoretical framework and derive two algorithms that...

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Market transparency and consumer search - evidence from the German retail gasoline market

Martin, Simon - 2020

We study a novel trade-off in market transparency regulation by estimating a structural model of the German retail gasoline market. Transparent environments enable easy price comparisons and match findings. Restricting transparency such that only the cheapest offers are shown induces firms to...

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Homing choice and platform pricing strategy

Shekhar, Shiva - 2017

We compare a discriminatory pricing regime with a non-discriminatory regime in a competitive bottleneck model where content providers endogenously sort into single or multi-homers. We find that consumer prices rise when the share of single-homers increases in the non-discriminatory case, while...

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Vertical bargaining and obfuscation

Reshidi, Edona - 2022 - Last updated: March 18, 2022

Manufacturers often engage in practices that impede consumer search. Examples include proliferating product varieties, imposing vertical informational restraints, and banning online sales to make it more difficult for consumers to compare prices. This paper models vertical bargaining over...

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Markups and inflation in oligopolistic markets : evidence from wholesale price data

Alexander, Patrick; Han, Lu; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Tomlin, Ben - 2024 - Last updated: May 28, 2024

We study how the interaction of market power and nominal price rigidity influences inflation dynamics. We formulate a tractable model of oligopolistic competition and sticky prices and derive closed-form expressions for the pass-through of idiosyncratic and common cost shocks to firms' prices....

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Characteristics, causes, and price effects : empirical evidence of intraday Edgeworth cycles

Siekmann, Manuel - 2017

Edgeworth cycles represent the leading concept to explain observed pricing patterns on retail gasoline markets and have been subject to numerous empirical investigations on an interday level. In this paper, I present unique evidence of the presence, causes, and price effects of intraday...

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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2018

Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect of competition on transport distances. Our econometric analyses …

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