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Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry

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  • Pingali, Viswanath

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What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of high quality good more than the low quality good? These are the questions examined in this paper in the context of the video rental industry. Videos can be classified into DVD and VHS. Firms can also be categorized as branded stores that belong to a major chain and unbranded stores that do not belong to any major national chain. As competition increases prices of both DVD and VHS should decrease, but in theory it is not clear which one will decrease more. Moreover branded and unbranded stores may respond differently to the change in competition. My empirical results indicate that as competition increases, (a) for branded stores, the price of the high quality good (DVD) falls more than that of the low quality good (VHS), (b) for unbranded stores, we observe the opposite effect.

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  • Pingali, Viswanath, 2012. "Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry," IIMA Working Papers WP2012-07-04, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:iim:iimawp:11449
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