The traditional theory of second-degree price discrimination tackles individual self-selection
but does not address the possibility that buyers could form a coalition to conduct arbitrage …

Whenever we take a trip by train or by plane, we are often well aware that the price we paid
was quite different from that paid by our fellow passengers with whom we are sharing the …

The price discrimination literature typically makes the assumption of no consumer arbitrage.
This assumption is increasingly violated in the digital economy, where coupons are traded …

The present paper proposes a model with vertical differentiation to study firms' incentives
using group‐buying. We look into two cases. In the first study, firms are restricted to use the …

Bundling of information goods (such as software and digitized music or TV) is omnipresent
in today’ s business-to-consumer environment. However, a surprisingly small number of …

The ability of a monopoly seller to prevent resale is often presented as a necessary
condition for first degree price discrimination. In this paper, we explore this claim and show …

This paper argues that when consumers are heterogeneous in group-buying costs, a
monopolist seller may practice price discrimination through inducing certain consumers to …

Résumé Ce chapitre étudie un ensemble de pratiques de tarification permettant à une
entreprise de transport de discriminer des utilisateurs dont les demandes diffèrent. L'objectif …

This paper considers the optimal two‐part pricing strategy of a monopolist whose customers
collude when they purchase the firm's product. In contrast to the sentiment in the existing …

Dans cet article, nous proposons un cadre unifié permettant de rendre compte des
développements les plus récents de la théorie de la discrimination par les prix. Ces …