Title:Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, MarioDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Concert tickets can either be sold at a single price or at different prices to reflect the various levels of seating categories available. Here we consider how two product characteristics (the artist’s age and venue capacity) ...
Title:Price Smoothing Policies - A Welfare Analysis
Author(s):CANOVA, FabioDate:1992Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In post-WWII experience U.S. monetary authorities have attempted to eliminate seasonal fluctuations in prices and nominal interest rates. Developments in financial markets and recently discovered empirical regularities ...
Title:Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, MarioDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Survey evidence suggests firms do not use pricing policies that vary prices in
response to demand changes because they fear that such practices would antagonize
consumers. We investigate this hypothesis using a dataset ...
Title:Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, MarioDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Pricing schemes that vary prices in response to demand shocks may antagonize consumers and reduce demand. At the same time, consumers may take advantage of the opportunities offered by price changes. Overall, the net impact ...
Title:Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies
Author(s):COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, MarioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Pricing schemes that vary prices in response to demand shocks may antagonize consumers and reduce demand. At the same time, consumers may take advantage of the opportunities offered by price changes. Overall, the net impact ...
Title:Price/Wage Staggering and Persistence
Author(s):ASCARI, Guido; GARCIA, Juan AngelDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Pricing to Habits and the Law of One Price
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, MartinDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper proposes a novel international transmission mechanism based on the
assumption of deep habits. The term deep habits stands for a preference specification
according to which consumers form habits on a good-by-good ...