This paper studies the interaction between horizontal mergers and price discrimination by endogenizing the merger formation process in the context of a repeated purchase model with two periods and three firms wherein firms may engage in Behaviour-Based Price Discrimination (BBPD). From a merger...

This paper studies the interaction between horizontal mergers and price discrimination by endogenizing the merger formation process in the context of a repeated purchase model with two periods and three firms wherein firms may engage in Behaviour-Based Price Discrimination (BBPD). From a merger...

We study oligopolistic firms' incentives to share customer informationabout past purchase history in a situation where firms are uncertainabout whether a particular consumer considers the product offeringscomplements or substitutes. By addressing this new type ofbehavior-based price...

We study oligopolistic firms' incentives to share customer informationabout past purchase history in a situation where firms are uncertainabout whether a particular consumer considers the product offeringscomplements or substitutes. By addressing this new type ofbehavior-based price...

Brokesova, Deck and Peliova [Int. J. Ind. Organ. 37 (2014) 229-237] have shown that comparative static results from two-period behavior-based pricing models hold in laboratory experiments, but they observed significant differences from point predictions. We report findings in conformity with...

This study investigates mixed markets in which a social welfare-maximizing public firm and a private firm engage in behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD). Total of two cases are considered: one where domestic shareholders completely own the private firm and one where foreign shareholders...