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We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently practice price discrimination on returning customers. The monopolist’s price discrimination scheme is leaky, in the sense that an endogenous fraction of consumers chooses to...
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I analyze a model of directed search in which a consumer inspects a finite number of products sharing attributes with each others. The consumer discovers her valuation for the attributes of the inspected products and adapts her search strategy based on what she has learned. The consumer...
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We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently practice price discrimination on returning customers. The monopolist’s price discrimination scheme is leaky, in the sense that an endogenous fraction of consumers choose to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213778
We explain why a durable-goods monopolist would like to create a shortage in the marketplace.We argue that this incentive arises from the presence of a second-hand market and uncertainty about consumers' willingness to pay for the good. Consumers are heterogeneous in their valuations. Moreover,...
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We present a model of market hyper-segmentation, where a monopolist acquires within a short time all information about the preferences of consumers who purchase its vertically differentiated products within a given period. The firrm offers a new price/quality schedule after each commitment...
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Consumers choosing flat-rate contracts tend to have insufficient usage to warrant the cost, particularly for new products. We propose and estimate a Bayesian learning model of tariff and usage choice that explains this "flat-rate bias'' without relying on behavioral misjudgments or...
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, the monopolist compares the potential direct revenues from consumers with lost advertising revenues from not … intermediating those consumers to advertisers. If the option is introduced, the media firm increases advertising quantity to make the … or decrease. Perhaps surprisingly, more annoying advertisements may lead to an increase in advertising quantity. …
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consumers. In such markets, we show that firms will engage in advertising competition in order to convince consumers of their …This paper studies advertising in vertically differentiated product markets with positive consumption externalities. In … incentive to advertise. If it is not the brand to provide the greater consumption externality it will have very low market share …
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We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising. We model advertising as exciting … consumer interest into learning more about the product, and determine a firm's equilibrium choice of advertising content over … quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is …
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We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising. We model advertising as exciting … consumer interest into learning more about the product, and determine a firm's equilibrium choice of advertising content over … quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733987