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When products are sold in advance, i.e. prior to consumption, consumers trade off an early, uninformed purchase at a low price against a late, informed purchase at a high price. This paper considers the effect of market structure on the prevalence of advance selling. We show that in an...
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competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …
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in prices of add ons. Using 10 years of extended warranty data from a nationwide Canadian retailer, we show that extended … warranty prices respond strongly to changes in local economic activity whereas prices of underlying durable goods do not. The … procyclicality is driven by a shift in price setting behavior, where local stores use extended warranty discounts to make base …
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We consider a duopoly in a homogenous goods market where part of the consumers are ex ante uninformed about prices. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following results. First, there is no monotone relationship...
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marginal external costs of users), and analyze the welfare effects of uniform and non-discriminatory pricing policies. The …
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This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality when all markets are served. The model features the business-passenger and leisure-passenger markets where business passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less...
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Different theories of expectation formation and learning usually yield different outcomes for realized market prices in … dynamic models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate expectation formation and learning in a controlled experimental …
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We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to …-- andrandom pricing --to obtain profits from badly informed buyers--. Wecharacterize a positive profits equilibrium where firms …
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We study social learning in a social network setting where agents receive independent noisy signals about the truth …
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