Personalized pricing and competition

A Rhodes, J Zhou - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We study personalized pricing in a general oligopoly model. The impact of personalized
pricing relative to uniform pricing hinges on the degree of market coverage. If market …

AI algorithms, price discrimination and collusion: a technological, economic and legal perspective

A Gautier, A Ittoo, P Van Cleynenbreugel - European Journal of Law and …, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, important concerns have been raised about the increasing capabilities of
pricing algorithms to make use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Two issues have …

Market segmentation through information

M Elliott, A Galeotti, A Koh, W Li - Available at SSRN 3432315, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
An information designer has precise information about consumers' preferences over
products sold by oligopolists. The designer chooses what information to reveal to …

How to monetize data: An economic analysis of data monetization strategies under competition

X Zhang, WT Yue, Y Yu, X Zhang - Decision Support Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
With data being generated at an unprecedented rate, monetizing data has become a
paramount issue in this era of the digital economy. Firms have traditionally leveraged …

The role of consumer characteristics in explaining product innovation performance: Evidence from emerging economies

GEG Oh, M Aliyev, M Kafouros, AKM Au - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Building on evolutionary perspectives, we offer a new demand-based explanation as to why
the product innovation performance of firms varies across countries. We propose that certain …

The microeconomics of data–a survey

F Pino - Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, academia, institutions, and policymakers have been focusing their attention
on the impact of data in digital markets. The economic literature that explicitly models data …

Data brokers co-opetition

Y Gu, L Madio, C Reggiani - Oxford Economic Papers, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Data brokers share consumer data with rivals and, at the same time, compete with them for
selling. We propose a 'co-opetition'game of data brokers and characterize their optimal …

[HTML][HTML] Regulating data sales: the role of data selling mechanisms

L Abrardi, C Cambini, F Pino - Telecommunications Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
We analyze the effects of different data selling mechanisms of a monopolistic Data Broker
(DB) who sells consumer data to firms in a downstream market with free entry, where data …

Data-Driven Mergers

A de Corniere, G Taylor - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study mergers between firms operating in data-connected markets: the data generated
as a byproduct of the activity in market A can be used by firms operating in market B. The …

Softening competition through unilateral sharing of customer data

C Choe, J Cong, C Wang - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study how a data-rich firm can benefit by unilaterally sharing its customer data with a
data-poor competitor when the data can be used for price discrimination. By sharing data on …