Basing-point pricing is known to have been abused by geographically dispersed firms in order to eliminate competition … on transportation costs. This paper develops a topographic test for collusive basing-point pricing. The method uses … between competitive and collusive basing-point pricing. We define a measure for the likelihood of collusion that can be used …

manufacturer price (average price provisioning or APP). We characterize the optimal pricing strategy of a third-degree price … drug pricing, price protection in long-term trading contracts and shifts of consumers between markets. We analyze a … the minimum price and the average manufacturer price (minimum price provisioning or MPP) or a proportion of the average …

The recent developments in information technology (IT) have enabled firms to employ personalized pricing. Should all … firms employ personalized pricing even though the adaptation costs of such pricing strategies are not high? This paper … theoretically demonstrates a situation in which all firms do not always employ personalized pricing even though the fixed costs to …

This paper studies a monopoly pricing problem when the seller can also choose the timing of a trade with each buyer …

We develop a theoretical model of international trade pricing in which individual exporters and importers bargain over … the transaction price and exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. We find that the choice of price and invoicing currency … and greater exchange rate pass-through into import prices. We show the range of price and invoicing outcomes that arise …

behavior by the sellers. On the one hand, reserve prices are adjusted remarkably nuanced to the resulting sales price pattern …, we find evidence for the sunk cost fallacy as there is a substantial positive effect on the reserve price when the player …

on both sides. We show that a price-setting platform provider sets a fee lower than the myopically optimal level on at …