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This paper examines the relation between prices in conventional stores and on the Internet. Main results from the theoretical analysis are i) we expect a discrete fall in prices in conventional stores as the share of the population with access to Internet reaches a critical level, ii) the...
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Increasingly, retailers have access to better pricing technology, especially in online markets. Firms employ automated … 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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We provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance (RPM). In a model with two manufacturers and two retailers, we show that RPM facilitates manufacturer collusion when retailers have alternatives to selling a manufacturer's product. Because of the alternatives, manufacturers can only...
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interaction in pricing for the Austrian retail gasoline market. Results from spatial autoregressive models suggest that the … pricing decisions of other stations. We conclude that centrality influences firms' pricing behavior and further find that the …
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Full paper is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452497" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452497Supplemental Material to the article "Buyer Alliances in Vertically Related Market". I first develop a model of vertical relationships that provides theoretical grounds for the status quo effect and...
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Supplement is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452506" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452506Alliances of buyers to negotiate input prices with suppliers are commonplace. Using pre- and post-alliances data on household purchases of bottled water, I develop a structural model of bilateral...
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We study the pricing decision of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia can arise from habit formation …
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arguments to learn about consumers' willingness to pay. We incorporate market pricing equilibrium conditions into this setting …
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We examine the profitability of personalized pricing policies that are derived using different specifications of demand in … a typical retail setting with consumer-level panel data. We generate pricing policies from a variety of models … inputs. To compare pricing policies, we employ an inverse probability weighted estimator of profits that explicitly takes into …
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We examine the profitability of personalized pricing policies that are derived using different specifications of demand … in a typical retail setting with consumer-level panel data. We generate pricing policies from a variety of models … inputs. To compare pricing policies, we employ an inverse probability weighted estimator of profits that explicitly takes …
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