Working Paper
Competition and price discrimination in the market for mailing lists
Thomadsen, Raphael; Borzekowski, Ron; Taragin, Charles (2005)
This paper examines the relationship between competition and price discrimination in the market for mailing lists. More specifically, we examine whether sellers are more likely to segregate consumers by offering a menu of quality choices (second-degree price discrimination) and/or offering different prices to readily identifiable groups of consumers (third-degree price discrimination) in more competitive markets. We also examine how the fineness with which consumers are divided corresponds to the level of competition in the market. ; The dataset includes information about all consumer ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2005-56