We study a two-period model of behavior-based price discrimination where firms can agree
to share customer information before the first-period competition begins, and the information …

We investigate how the presence of a Data Broker (DB), who sells consumer data to
downstream firms, affects firm entry and competition in a horizontally differentiated oligopoly …

Consider a market where identical products are sold to consumers via two competing
platforms: one traditional and the other social-commerce-based. The social commerce …

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 …

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GQ5 POS= 12pt]?> With the rise of big data technology, an online platform can easily gather …

Firms may share information to discover potential synergies between their data sets and
algorithms, eventually leading to more efficient mergers and acquisitions (M&A) decisions …

Recent antitrust investigations indicate that, due to self-preferencing, the platform's own
sellers have unfair access to data from third-party sellers. This paper analyzes how this …

The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely
targeted individual pricing. We consider an oligopoly market à la Salop in which only one …

Large, generalist, technology firms—so-called “big-tech” firms—powerful in their primary
market, routinely enter secondary markets consisting of specialist firms. Naturally, one might …

We study information sharing between competing sellers in markets where consumers
sample sellers sequentially. Sellers can disclose to their rival when they encounter a buyer …