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Stable Price Dispersion
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rco:dpaper:523&r=&r=com
Published: January 21, 2025 00:00
We study the pricing of homogeneous products sold to customers who consider different sets of suppliers. We seek prices that are stable in the sense that no firm wishes to undercut any rival or to raise its price when rivals have a subsequent opportunity…
Optimal Discriminatory Disclosure
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-792&r=&r=com
Published: January 16, 2025 00:00
A seller of an indivisible good designs a selling mechanism for a buyer whose private information (his type) is the distribution of his value for the good. A selling mechanism includes both a menu of sequential pricing, and a menu of information disclosure…
Welfare of Competitive Price Discrimination with Captive Consumers
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-790&r=&r=com
Published: January 16, 2025 00:00
We study the welfare effects of price discrimination in a duopoly market with both captive and contested consumers. Using a unified information design approach, we characterize the best and worst market segmentations for producer surplus, consumer surplus,…
Market Power in the Middle East
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2025/001&r=&r=com
Published: January 10, 2025 00:00
The Middle East (ME) is often perceived as region with rentier economies and uncompetitive markets. Evidence of market power in the region however is scant. In this paper, we ask the following three questions: Is the ME uniquely uncompetitive? Has the…
Competition matters: uniform vs. indication-based pricing of pharmaceuticals
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:nhheco:2025_001&r=&r=com
Published: January 8, 2025 00:00
Pharmaceutical expenditures are rising rapidly, driven in part by the innovation of highly effective but very expensive drug therapies that treat multiple diseases. While these drugs offer substantial health benefits, payers face a critical trade-off…
Dynamics of Market Power in Monetary Economies
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:feddwp:99409&r=&r=com
Published: January 7, 2025 00:00
We study the dynamic interplay between monetary policy and market power in a decentralized monetary economy. Building on Choi and Rocheteau (2024), our key innovation is to model rent seeking as a process that takes time, allowing market power to evolve…
Passthrough of Retail Price Regulation in the Market for Pharmaceuticals
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rif:wpaper:123&r=&r=com
Published: December 31, 2024 00:00
Abstract I study the transmission of pharmacy mark-ups to retail prices and the policy between retail markups and Value Added Tax (VAT) rates in Finland. My reduced form evidence demonstrates that pharmaceutical manufacturers respond to a decrease in the…