Behavior?based price discrimination with nonuniform distribution of consumer preferences

Fiscal Discrimination Between Consumer Groups: Tax Burden Distribution Under Price Discrimination

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Reference-Dependent Consumer Preferences and Price Setting

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Multimarket Contact, Price Discrimination and Consumer Welfare

This paper investigates the extent to which ...rms choose multimarket contact when there is no possibility of consumer or producer arbitrage across the relevant markets. The degree of multimarket contact is shown to be greater when ...rms o¤er distinctive products and when setup costs are low. Price discrimination increases multimarket contact, bene...tting consumers but harming ...rms. There a...

Consumer Preferences for Product Information and Price Comparison Apps

Product information and price comparison apps on smartphones play an increasing role in consumers’ purchase decision process. Consumers are able to choose from a variety of product information search applications (apps) which mainly differ with respect to the information that is provided to consumers during their search process. The goal of this study is to analyze preferences regarding differe...

Competitive Positioning in Markets with Nonuniform Preferences