Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Author "COURTY, Pascal"

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    Title: Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2010 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Frictional Matching: Evidence from Law School Admission  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We measure friction in the matching of students and law schools as the number of unnecessary student applications and school admissions that have to be undertaken per actual matriculation. We show that friction increases ...
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    Title: Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; KIM, Do Han; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: 2009/03 Abstract: Using data from a large, U.S. federal job training program, we investigate whether enrolment incentives that exogenously vary the ‘shadow prices’ for serving different demographic subgroups of clients influence case workers’ ...
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    Title: Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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) ...
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    Title: Unpriced Quality Number  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: A monopolist deliberately charges the same price for differentiated products when high quality products are more likely to be allocated to low type consumers under uniform pricing. The argument can explain the use of ...
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    Title: Suspense: Dynamic Incentives in Sports Contests  Author(s): CHAN, William; COURTY, Pascal; HAO, Li Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In a dynamic model of sports competition, if spectators care only about contestants' efforts, incentive schemes depending linearly on the final score difference dominate rank order schemes based only on who wins. If ...
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    Title: The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Concert tickets can either be sold at a single price or at multiple prices corresponding to different seating categories. We study the relationship between price discrimination and revenue by examining variations in the ...
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    Title: Responsive Pricing  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Abstract We study the efficiency property of responsive pricing, a scheme that proposes to increase prices as a function of the level of capacity utilization in environments where traditional allocation schemes (e.g. ...
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    Title: A general test for distortions in performance measures  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Results from the incentive literature suggest that performance measures are often distorted, eliciting dysfunctional and unintended responses. The existence of these responses, however, is difficult to demonstrate in ...
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    Title: Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Do Consumers Care about How Prices Are Set?  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. ...
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    Title: Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Using data from a unique pricing experiment, we investigate Vickrey’s conjecture that responsive pricing can be used to smooth both predictable and unpredictable demand shocks. Our evidence shows that increasing the ...
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    Title: Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article describes the evolution of a performance measurement system in a government job training program. In this program, a federal agency establishes performance measures and standards for substate agencies. The ...
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    Title: Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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 ...
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    Title: Benchmarking Performance  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Article
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    Title: Setting the Standard in Performance Measurement Systems  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald; HEINRICH, Carolyn J. Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Article
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    Title: Buying Frenzies  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal Date: 2005 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO
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    Title: An Empirical Investigation of Gaming Responses to Explicit Performance Incentives  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Article
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    Title: A General Test of Gaming  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Discussion Paper
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    Title: A General Test of Gaming  Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; MARSCHKE, Gerald Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO