rebate, marketing support, or simply the willingness to supply inventory. The use of conditional pricing practices is …

price. Under a discount remedy, any consumer, without proof of injury, may purchase the good for a limited period of time at … holding a relatively high number of coupons), while under the discount remedy all consumers are affected. We show nonetheless … that the resulting deadweight loss could be lower under the discount remedy. We also consider how the deadweight loss …

industrial organization. Using Nielsen Retail Scanner data for the United States, we document that in the consumer food industry …

commercial and Medicare Advantage plans. Using data on net-of-rebate prices and quantities from a large Pharmacy Benefits Manager … year after introduction, but do not differentially impact net-of-rebate prices, at least in the short-run. To quantify the …

-of-service HMOs who capture a 24% discount. Our results are in general agreement with earlier work that shows that managed care …

, with a corresponding per-unit price discount of 4-18 percent for the entire episode. We conclude that a large share cost …

A number of recent antitrust lawsuits have been settled with discount contracts in which the defendants agree in the … future to sell to the plaintiffs at a discount off of the price they offer to other buyers. Economists often object to such … the discount is calculated. This paper shows that poorly structured discount contracts will indeed result in price …

make choices as if they were maximizing a stream of known utils weighted by a discount function, D(t). This as-if discount … preferences. When the simulation noise has variance that is linear in the event's horizon, the as-if discount function is …

those savings occur. In this paper we demonstrate the importance of this distinction using novel evidence from a rebate …