Banerjee, Shraman (2018) Asymmetric dynamic price mechanism for symmetric buyers. [Working papers (or Preprints)] (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We consider a dynamic posted-price mechanism of a seller who must sell a single unit of a good to a number of buyers before a deadline. The seller cannot pre-commit to any price-path. Even when the buyers are symmetric (though non-anonymous) to the seller, the seller can charge different prices to different buyers. We show that this asymmetric treatment of symmetric buyers revenue-dominates the optimal symmetric mechanism. We change the random tie-breaking allocation rule, used for symmetric mechanisms, to generate higher revenue for the seller. We show that the result holds even in static environment, though the marginal benefit of price discrimination increases with the time horizon of the game.
Item Type: | Working papers (or Preprints) |
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Keywords: | Monopoly Pricing | Asymmetric Mechanism | Non-Anonymity |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Business, Management and Accounting > Marketing Social Sciences and humanities > Economics, Econometrics and Finance > Economics |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of Government and Public Policy |
Depositing User: | Arjun Dinesh |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2022 10:13 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2022 10:13 |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3069512 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/3492 |
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