Price discrimination with private and imperfect information

This paper investigates the competitive and welfare effects of information accuracy improvements in markets where firms can price discriminate after observing a private and noisy signal about a consumer's brand preference. I show that firms charge more to customers they believe have a brand pre...

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Main Author: Esteves, Rosa Branca (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/11709
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/11709