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Die Neue E.ON auf dem deutschen Strommarkt – Wettbewerbliche Auswirkungen der innogy-Übernahme
Stöhr, Annika; Budzinski, Oliver; Jasper, Jörg - In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 45 (2020) 3, pp. 295-317
Der Deal der beiden größten deutschen Energielieferanten RWE und E.ON zum Tausch verschiedener Geschäftseinheiten, welcher Mitte September 2019 genehmigt wurde, wird den deutschen Energiemarkt wesentlich umstrukturieren und sowohl im Bereich Erzeugung als auch im Vertrieb zu jeweils einem...
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The Discriminating (Pricing) Actuary
Frees, Edward W. - 2020
The insurance industry is built on risk classification, grouping insureds into homogeneous classes. Through actions such as underwriting, pricing and so forth, it differentiates, or discriminates, among insureds. Actuaries have responsibility for pricing insurance risk transfers and are...
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Consumer Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era
Bartlett, Robert P. - 2019
silver linings emerge in the FinTech era: (1) Discrimination is declining; algorithmic lending may have increased competition …
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Personalizing Prices to Redistribute Wealth
Woodcock, Ramsi - 2020
The information age is replacing the Invisible Hand with an algorithmic hand. Where once markets were governed by uniform prices determined for large groups of anonymous consumers by impersonal forces of supply and demand, today there is increasingly no such thing as a market price. Instead,...
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing : Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2014
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers' subscription demand is elastic and networks … show that a reduction of the termination charge below cost has two opposing effects: it softens competition and it helps to … termination charge below cost, either to soften competition or to internalize the network effect. The regulator will favor …
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Big Data, Price Discrimination, and Antitrust
Woodcock, Ramsi - 2018
Antitrust guarantees a particular distribution of wealth between consumers and producers. Big data allows firms with pricing power to identify the highest price a consumer is willing to pay for a good and charge it to her. The practice upends the current distribution of wealth by allowing firms...
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Regulatory Bundling
Nou, Jennifer; Stiglitz, Edward - 2019
Regulatory bundling is the ability of administrative agencies to aggregate and disaggregate rules. Agencies, in other words, can bundle what would otherwise be multiple rules into just one. Conversely, they can split one rule into several. This observation parallels other recent work on how...
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Price discrimination through communication
Sher, Itai; Vohra, Rakesh - In: Theoretical Economics 10 (2015) 2, pp. 597-648
We study a seller's optimal mechanism for maximizing revenue when a buyer may present evidence relevant to her value. We show that a condition very close to transparency of buyer segments is necessary and sufficient for the optimal mechanism to be deterministic--hence akin to classic third...
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Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality
Zhang, Jennifer; Seidmann, Abraham - University of Toledo; University of Rochester - 2006
, including the impactof network externality, upgrade compatibility, and commitment on pricingin a dynamic environment. We show …
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Price discrimination through communication
Sher, Itai; Vohra, Rakesh V. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; journal of the Econometric … 10 (2015) 2, pp. 597-648
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