Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230488 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 1083
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We study a model of behavior-based price discrimination where firms can agree to share customer information that can be used for personalized pricing. We show that firms are better off sharing customer information as it softens up-front competition when they gather information, consumers are worse off as a result, but total surplus can increase thanks to the improved quality of matching between firms and consumers.
Subjects: 
Information sharing
behavior-based price discrimination
personalized pricing
JEL: 
D43
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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