Dynamic pricing is often complicated by strategic customer behavior. One tactic utilized by retailers to counter strategic customer behavior is to adjust prices in an unpredictable manner. This phenomenon has been studied in the Markovian pricing literature in single-retailer settings. In this...

The welfare implications of vertical mergers have been a subject of disagreement for decades. Similar to horizontal mergers, economists need to weigh the efficiency gains relative to the market power concerns when considering the competitive effects of vertical mergers. However, in vertical...