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compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …
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compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635587
compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083769
sequentially screens the consumer with a menu of contracts: the consumer self-selects once by choosing a contract and then self …-selects again when he learns the actual valuation. A deterministic sequential mechanism is a menu of refund contracts, each …
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optimal menu of contracts that screens consumers' types is characterized. The benefit of discriminating consumers based on …
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This paper considers a multi-period setting where a monopolist, with short-term commitment, rents one unit of a durable good to a single consumer in every period. The consumer's valuation constitutes his private information and remains constant over time. By using a mechanism design approach,...
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We study a tractable two-dimensional model of price discrimination. Consumers combine a rigid with a more flexible choice, such as choosing the location of a house and its quality or size. We show that the optimal pricing scheme involves no bundling if consumer types are affiliated. Conversely,...
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; flexibility ; contracts ; screening ; information externalities …. flexibility. The first-best contracts under complete information allow to successfully commit to the optimal level of flexibility … optimal screening mechanism and characterize its distortions. We analyze the inefficiency of the monopolist's offers in terms …
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optimal menu of contracts that screens consumers' types is characterized. The benefit of discriminating consumers based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224767
We study a tractable two-dimensional model of price discrimination. Consumers combine a rigid with a more flexible choice, such as choosing the location of a house and its quality or size. We show that the optimal pricing scheme involves no bundling if consumer types are affiliated. Conversely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457183