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Hassle costs and price discrimination: an empirical welfare analysis

رقم التسجيلة 22151
نوع المادة مقال
الموقع الالكتروني https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?f=s&doi=10.1257/app.20130046
المؤلفون Marshall, Guillermo

العنوان Hassle costs and price discrimination: an empirical welfare analysis
المستخلص

This paper studies a market where soda is sold in both refillable and nonrefillable bottles. Purchasing refillables is inconvenient but cheaper. Using a discrete choice model, I find that price-sensitive customers put less weight on the inconveniences of purchasing refillables. This implies that a retailer can target lower prices to price-sensitive customers using the refillable segment. I evaluate the overall welfare consequences of this market segmentation and find that both customer welfare and profits would decrease (by 12.61 and 4.21 percent, respectively) if the refillables were removed, as there would be an important market-shrinkage effect

المواضيع Economics

الواصفات PRODUCTION
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
RETAIL TRADE
WHOLESALE TRADE

التعداد التاريخي July 2015
العدد 3
المجلد 7
مؤشر المكان pp. 123-146