Price discrimination with partial information: Does it pay off?

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2009
Volume: 105
Issue: 1
Pages: 28-31

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper investigates the profit effects of price discrimination when firms have partial information about consumer preferences. It shows that price discrimination can boost industry profit if firms have access to the right kind of information about consumer preferences while remaining ignorant of other relevant information.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:105:y:2009:i:1:p:28-31
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
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2026-01-25