This chapter surveys the developments in price discrimination theory as it applies to
imperfectly competitive markets. Broad themes and conclusions are discussed in the areas …

Five decisions by supermarket operators have important dietary implications: the location of
their outlets; the foods they sell; the prices they charge; the promotional strategies they use; …

By Hal R. Varian* of component technologies which encouraged combinatorial innovation.
The earlier waves of combinatorial innovation required decades or more to play out. For …

With the cooperation of a large mobile service provider, we conduct a novel field experiment
that simultaneously randomizes the prices of two competing movie theaters using mobile …

Soda taxes aim to reduce excessive sugar consumption. We assess who is most impacted
by soda taxes. We estimate demand using micro longitudinal data covering on-the-go …

This paper surveys the recent literature on price discrimination. The focus is on three
aspects of pricing decisions: the information about customers available to firms; the …

Automobile manufacturers frequently use promotions involving cash incentives. While
payments are nominally directed to either customers or dealers, the ultimate beneficiary of …

Organizations can create volume flexibility—the ability to increase capacity up or down to
meet demand for a single service—through the use of flexible labor resources (eg, part-time …

We examine the effect of competition on second-degree price discrimination in display
advertising in Yellow Pages directories. Our main empirical finding is that while competition …

We consider a general model of monopoly price discrimination and characterize the
conditions under which price discrimination is and is not profitable. We show that an …