We study a duopoly model where each firm chooses personalized prices for its targeted consumers, who can be active or passive in identity management. Active consumers can bypass price discrimination and have access to the price offered to non-targeted consumers, which passive consumers cannot....

Recent years have seen growing cases of data-driven tech mergers such as Google/Fitbit, inwhich a dominant digital platform acquires a relatively small rm possessing a large volumeof consumer data. The digital platform can consolidate the consumer data with its existingdata set from other...

We study a duopoly model where each firm chooses personalized prices for its targeted consumers, who can be active or passive in identity management. Active consumers can bypass price discrimination and have access to the price offered to non-targeted consumers, which passive consumers cannot....