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offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …
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competition under duopoly and derive the Markov Perfect Equilibrium pricing strategies.Contrary to intuition we find that …
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Dynamic pricing is increasingly popular in the perishable good markets, but its effect under competition is uncertain … intensifies competition and benefits consumers substantially; (ii) the ability to price discriminate softens competition and …
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We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two specific research questions: Do participants charge the equilibrium prices that can be derived from a theoretical model? How is the price setting affected by the characteristics...
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Bordalo et al. (2013), this can have severe welfare implications. The ensuing excessive competition for headline prices tends … into lower headline prices, which aggravates the problem, competition policy is no substitute for consumer protection …
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We address a generic price competition model in an industry with an arbitrary number of competitors, each offering all … offered on the market.We characterize the equilibrium prices, product assortment and sales volumes in the price competition …
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pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a … model of price competition where firms can differ in pricing frequency and choose algorithms that autonomously react to …
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effects and platforms. Moreover, platform competition literature has not considered how algorithms may affect competition …. This paper considers algorithmic platform pricing and its effect on platform competition outcomes. We evaluate the impact …
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firms cannot monitor the competition, having more savvy consumers leads firms to present comparable offers. This results in …
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In this paper we study, as in Jeon-Menicucci (2009), competition between sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of …
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