The price discrimination effect of a large merger of parking garages

This note investigates the effects of a large horizontal merger on the shape of the 1-to-12 h price menus offered by parking garages in Paris. The merger caused low-end prices to increase proportionally more than high-end prices. This results in larger discounts on longer hours and hence in more price discrimination between short-term and long-term motorists.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	De Nijs, Romain
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 117.2012, 3, p. 928-931
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Horizontal merger \| Difference-in-differences \| Price discrimination

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance ; L4 - Antitrust Policy ; L9 - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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