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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2013
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CESifo Working Paper No. 4490
Verlag: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotelling's model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance purchase discounts. Consumers choose between an early (uninformed) purchase at a low price and a late (informed) purchase at a high price. Competing firms offer higher discounts in order to secure a large market share in advance. Our main result shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand uncertainty and the degree of product differentiation.
Schlagwörter: 
competition
price discrimination
individual demand uncertainty
advance purchase discounts
JEL: 
D43
D80
L13
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