The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew the agency’s lawsuit against Pepsi Cola for allegedly violating the ...

Price discrimination is a pricing strategy where a seller prices the same item differerently in across separate markets based on what buyers in each market can or are willing to pay. Price ...

Vulnerable consumers are most at risk. Flexibility-based price discrimination allows companies to charge different people different prices for the same produce or service, based on how easily they ...

Price discrimination in the auto industry Price discrimination is a strategy where sellers charge consumers different prices for the same product. This pricing strategy is used across various ...

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits alleging the beverage distributor engaged in anticompetitive and unlawful price discrimination by favoring ...

If the Breakfast Baconator winds up costing $6.99 at 7 a.m. and $7.99 three hours later, what in life can you really count on anymore? The company later issued a statement saying it would not ...

But it’s a financial burden that many women face that often goes unnoticed. It is a form of price discrimination that can hit your wallet, affecting finances and daily lives in surprising ways.

Several interesting results emerge. First, a credit refund policy facilitates intraconsumer price discrimination for a single type of consumers with stochastic valuation. Second, an optimal policy ...

Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. 2023. Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination with Credit Refund Policies. Forthcoming, Management Science. Consumers often receive a full or partial refund for product returns or ...