Competitive Price Discrimination

Competitive Targeted Advertising with Price Discrimination

Competitive Price Discrimination in a Spatially Differentiated Intermediate Goods Market∗

Intermediate product markets are distinct in several ways, including the large size of the transactions, and the ability to price discriminate using buyer-specific prices. We study a competitive intermediate goods market in which there are buyer-specific prices. Using a rich dataset of transactions from the UK brick industry– in which transportation costs play an important role– we estimate a m...

Competitive Behavior-Based Price Discrimination for Software Upgrades

Price Discrimination ∗

In broad terms, one can say that price discrimination exists when two “similar” products which have the same marginal cost to produce are sold by a firm at different prices.1 This practice is often highly controversial in terms of its impact on both consumers and rivals. This chapter aims to explain some of the main economic motives for price discrimination, and to outline when this practice wi...

Price Discrimination ∗

journey, same date, same time, same comfort class) is sold at different prices1. ∗We gratefully acknowledge travel funding from the CNRS and NSF under grants INT9815703 and GA10273, and research funding under grant SES 0452864 . We thank Anita Anderson, Alain Béraud, Catherine de Fontenay, Robin Lindsey, André de Palma, Emile Quinet, and Sarah Tulman for their comments and suggestions. We would...