Download or read book Empirical Essays on Price Discrimination and Market Segmentation written by Romana Khan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of the second essay is on the contribution to retailer profitability from two price discrimination mechanisms: quantity discounts based on package size (second degree price discrimination), and micromarketing or store-level pricing (third degree price discrimination). The analysis shows that the ability to engage in second degree price discrimination contributes more to retailer profitability than third degree price discrimination.

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Download or read book Essays in Nonlinear Pricing written by Garrett Patrick Hagemann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses several open issues in the economics surrounding the use of nonlinear pricing. The first chapter empirically examines the impact of the use of nonlinear pricing by wholesalers. The second chapter evaluates how firm profit depends on the number of prices offered in a nonlinear price schedule. Finally, the third chapter investigates the use of all-unit discounts as a price discrimination instrument. The first chapter exploits a unique data set of price schedules to provide the first empirical estimate of the welfare impact of second degree price discrimination in a market with double marginalization. Theoretical predictions in such a context are ambiguous. Quantity discounts at the wholesale level reduce costs for larger retailers, increasing efficiency. However, quantity discounts raise input costs for smaller retailers, increasing prices consumers may pay. The combined welfare effects on consumers umers depends on how much of input cost discounts are passed through to consumers and the distribution of retailer size. I develop and estimate a model of the New York State retail liquor market where wholesalers offer a multi-part nonlinear tariff for each product. The structural model is then used to estimate the welfare impact of restricting wholesale pricing to be linear. I find that banning quantity discounts reduces total welfare by approximately 14% on average. Consumer surplus and wholesaler profit decline by approximately 26% on average. Average retailer profit increases by a similar magnitude, though effects for a particular retailer are heterogeneous across retailer size. The second chapter examines the shape of observed price schedules more directly. Sellers often offer price schedules with relatively few segments rather than completely nonlinear price schedules which offer a unique price for each unit sold. By not offering a completely nonlinear, sellers are foregoing some additional profit in favor of a simpler pricing strategy. I find that the scale of these foregone profits is relatively small and only loosely related to product characteristics. When considered in percentage terms, foregone profits are very similar across a large number of products. This suggests that simple pricing strategies obtain almost all the profits available and this is a common property of nonlinear pricing strategies. The final chapter compares price discrimination through two different quantity discount mechanisms: all-unit discounts and incremental discounts. All-unit-discounts give consumers a lower marginal price on all units purchased once total purchase size crosses a threshold. Incremental discounts only provide discounts on units above the threshold. Relative to incremental discounts, all-unit-discounts imply higher marginal prices and bunching of purchase sizes in equilibrium. The equilibrium bunching may present a challenge for estimating the model empirically.

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Download or read book Proceedings of the 1986 Academy of Marketing Science AMS Annual Conference written by Naresh K. Malhotra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1971, the Academy of Marketing Science is an international organization dedicated to promoting timely explorations of phenomena related to the science of marketing in theory, research, and practice. Among its services to members and the community at large, the Academy offers conferences, congresses and symposia that attract delegates from around the world. Presentations from these events are published in this Proceedings series, which offers a comprehensive archive of volumes reflecting the evolution of the field. Volumes deliver cutting-edge research and insights, complimenting the Academy’s flagship journals, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS) and AMS Review. Volumes are edited by leading scholars and practitioners across a wide range of subject areas in marketing science. This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1986 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Anaheim, California.

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