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Price Discrimination in Oligopoly: Evidence from Swedish Newspapers

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Asplund, Marcus () (Department of Economics, London Business School)
Eriksson, Rickard (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)
Strand, Niklas (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)

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This paper provides an empirical examination of third-degree price discrimination in the Swedish newspaper industry. The results show that price discrimination is more prevalent in competitive markets and among newspapers with low market shares. This supports predictions from recent theoretical work, including Chen (1997) and Fudenberg and Tirole (2000), which suggest that firms attempt to poach consumers from rivals by offering targeted discounts. In addition, we find weak evidence of newspapers in markets with large inflows of new consumers and those covering wide geographical areas offering more discounts.

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Paper provided by Stockholm School of Economics in its series Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance with number 468.

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Date of creation: 25 Oct 2001
Date of revision: 01 Jan 2007
Publication status: Forthcoming in Journal of Industrial Economics.
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Keywords: Price discrimination; oligopoly; newspapers;

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D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media

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