Retail Reference or Not?

pre-coordination or not?

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To Price Discriminate or Not : Product Choice in Retail Gasoline Markets

In this paper, we investigate a gasoline station’s incentive to price-discriminate by selling full-service gasoline as well as self-service gasoline. Unlike previous research, we explicitly model a firm’s incentive to price discriminate by choosing to be either single-product or multi-product as a function of market and station characteristics. Using cross-sectional survey data on prices, stati...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Why Online Retail Competition Does Not Always Benefit Consumers

Empirical studies to date have delivered mixed conclusions on the question of whether the widely acclaimed assertions of lower electronic retail (e-tail) prices are indeed true, and to what extent these benefits are able to transcend the virtual world by impacting retail prices. One explanation for the mixed conclusions is that they provide only a discrete snapshot of a limited segment of the m...

Occasional Identity or Occasional Reference ?

André Gallois argues that individuals that undergo fission are on some occasions identical, but on others distinct . occasional identity however, is metaphysically costly . i argue that we can get all the benefits of occasional identity without the metaphysical costs . on the proposed account, the names of ordinary material objects refer indeterminately to stages that belong to reference classe...