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On the limitations of data-based price discrimination |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation |
Haitian Xie; Guanghua School of Management, Peking University |
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Author's name, affiliation |
Ying Zhu; Department of Economics, University of California San Diego |
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Denis Shishkin; Department of Economics, University of California San Diego |
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Price discrimination, empirical revenue maximization, information theory, prior-independent pricing, optimal rate of convergence |
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D42, D82, C14, C44 |
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Abstract |
The classic third degree price discrimination (3PD) model requires the knowledge of the distribution of buyer valuations and the covariate to set the price conditioned on the covariate.
In terms of generating revenue, the classic result shows that 3PD is at least as good as uniform pricing. What if the seller has to set a price based only on a sample of observations from the underlying distribution? Is it still obvious that the seller should engage in 3PD? This paper sheds light on these fundamental questions. In particular, the comparison of the revenue performance between 3PD and uniform pricing is ambiguous overall when prices are set based on samples.
This finding is in the nature of statistical learning under uncertainty: a curse of dimensionality, but also other small sample complications. |
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Econometric Society |
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2025-01-28 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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pdf
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https://econtheory.org/ojs/index.php/te/article/view/20250303 |
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Theoretical Economics; Volume 20, Number 1 (January 2025) |
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en |
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