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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Price-Discrimination"”.
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Price discrimination in free-entry markets
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1983.
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Essays in price discrimination and regulation
Chapter 1 studies price discrimination in advertising sales to Political Action Committees (PACs) in the 2012 Presidential Election. These groups have grown rapidly - expenditures neared $500 million in the 2012 presidential election - and their effect on elections depends on regulation and its …
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Consumer Search and Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence From the United States Long-Distance Market
… based on costly search. I find that cross firm price elasticities for high volume consumers are 87% higher than for low volume consumers based on their lifetime search experience. In addition, it is estimated that, conditional on consumers being fully informed about prices, a 1% increment in the …
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Remedies for non-price discrimination: their application in the UK broadband market and their effect on investment decisions
… This established that the expectation of non-price discrimination by the incumbent operator, BT, against its smaller rivals was a significant concern holding back investment in market entry via local loop unbundling (LLU). To address this problem, Ofcom and BT agreed a set of Undertakings in …
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Three Essays on Colombia's Telecommunications
… of competitors would translate into higher prices. However, competition is at such high level that the media even talk about a "price war". My dissertation aims to shed light on the causes of this apparent inconsistency between a smaller number of competitors and more competitive outcomes. I …
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Imperfect competition and exchange rate pass-through in the international rice market
… certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine export price adjustment in response to exchange rate fluctuations. The analysis is based on the ""pricing to market"" (PTM) model which postulates that tests for imperfect competition in …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… externality given imperfect competition and price discrimination. In a Harberger-style analytical general equilibrium model, oligopolistic firms produce energy for residential consumers as final goods, but that energy can also be sold to the industrial sector as intermediate goods. The energy …
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Essays in experimental industrial organization on economic issues of the digital age
… technological advances such as history-based price discrimination, data brokerage, multisided platforms, and personalized advertisements, among others. Given that we face a vast range of impacts of digitization on economics and markets, this dissertation focuses on some key aspects. Using …
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Prospects for Liberian iron ores considering shifting patterns of trade in the world iron ore industry.
… of actual demands and 79% of actual trade flows. Price discrimination is evidenced in the form both of monopsony power exercised by some buyers in the Pacific Basin over intra-regional (e.g., Australian) and extra-regional (e.g., Brazilian, Liberian) producers and monopoly power permitting modest …
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Essays on Pricing and Promotional Strategies
… 3 examines the profitability of behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) by duopolists producing horizontally differentiated experience goods. We consider a three-stage game in which the firms first make price discrimination decisions followed by two-stage pricing decisions. The main findings …
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Essays in industrial organisation
… first chapter, we consider a Hotelling model of price competition where firms may acquire information regarding the preferences (i.e. “location”) of customers. By purchasing additional information, a firm has a finer partition regarding customer preferences, and its pricing decisions must be …
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Vertical integration and sabotage : evidence and regulation
… an essential input to downstream firms. When price of access is regulated the integrated monopolist may have incentives to degrade the quality of access if it is integrated with one of the downstream firms. The goal of this dissertation is: 1) to study the US natural gas, electricity and …
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Antitrust in Times of Information Technology: An Analysis of Big Tech Monopoly Cases
… and consumer welfare. This ranges from price discrimination, limiting consumer choices to the unethical use of data. The particular nature of information technology, with its network effects and negligible marginal costs, incentivizes and facilitates predatory market practices making …
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Aspects of pricing behaviour and long-run competitive adjustment in industrial markets with implications for competition policy
… for competition policy. The analysis of price competition relates patterns of price leadership and discount competition to features of market structure (using the UK petrol market as a case study) and examines the influence of large buyers on price determination. Policies towards buying …
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Non-Linear Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
… pricing. Non-linear pricing is a special case of price discrimination. The theory of price discrimination has to be modified in presence of oligopoly: in particular, a crucial role is played by the competitive externality that implies that product differentiation is closely related to the …
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An Empirical Study of National vs. Local Pricing under Multimarket Competition
Geographic price discrimination is generally considered beneficial to firm profitability. Firms can extract higher rents by varying prices across markets to match consumers' preferences. This paper empirically demonstrates, however, that a firm may instead prefer a national pricing policy that …
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Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Earliness and Tardiness Over a Common Due Date
… balanced in processing times across machines. A price discrimination process is successfully implemented to deal with unbalanced problems. The exact and heuristic procedures developed in this research are the first steps to create a structured approach to handle this problem and as a result, a …
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Vertical Contracting In The Us Health Care Industry
… studies the economic forces that determine prices in business-to-business health care markets. Health care is a large fraction of the US economy. In US health care markets, consumers are often insured and interact with the health care system through intermediary decision makers (health care …
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Essays in industrial organization
… examines the welfare effects of intertemporal price discrimination in market for airfare using a novel structural model of dynamic consumer search. I model how consumers search for airline tickets over time using data gathered from an internet travel agent. My model features sophisticated …
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