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Essays On Price Discrimination And Demand Learning, Benjamin E. Wallace
Essays On Price Discrimination And Demand Learning, Benjamin E. Wallace
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays examining how and why firms set prices in markets. In particular, this dissertation shows how firms may utilize nonlinear pricing to price discriminate, how firms may experiment with the prices they set to learn about the demand function in the market they serve in later periods and the effects of these pricing strategies on consumer welfare.
In Essay 1, I show how firms in the milk market use nonlinear price schedules -- quantity discounts -- to price discriminate and increase profits. I find that firms have a greater ability to price discriminate on their …