In the daily-deal market, a local-service seller contracts with an online platform to acquire
and retain new consumers via two marketing strategies: price discrimination (PD) wherein …

In the last five decades, a great deal has been written about the 'serials crisis,'library budget
shortfalls, the growth of various commercial scholarly publishers, the response from various …

We propose a model with two markets to analyze the welfare implications of price
discrimination with quality differences. In each market a local firm that operates in that …

A well-known result with important policy implications is that an output increase is a
necessary condition for social welfare to increase with third-degree price discrimination. In …

Consumers are strategic; they choose whether to buy products now or later. In a two-period
game-theoretical model, we examine the effects of third-degree price discrimination on the …

An important aspect of economic integration of the European Union is price convergence on
digital single market. In this study, we propose a novel way to measure price dispersion in …

We discuss a potential limitation to a widely accepted result, namely that an output increase
is a necessary condition for welfare to increase with price discrimination. We use a …

We consider a profit-maximizing monopolist that faces N≥ 2 different markets while the
number k of discriminatory prices is chosen by the regulator. Unlike the classical approach …

Price convergence on the digital single market is an important aspect of the economic
integration of the European Union. In this study, we propose a novel way to measure on-line …

Our report focuses on the geo-blocking phenomenon in cross-border trade in goods and
selected services, excluding web services offering access to digital multimedia contents, in …