Price discrimination with consumer misperception

The rise of big data and sophisticated, machine learning algorithms is increasing the prevalence of price discrimination and even personalized pricing. In traditional models, where consumers' willingness-to-pay (WTP) is a function of preferences (and budget constraints), price discrimination is...

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Published in:Applied economics letters 2021-06, Vol.28 (10), p.829-834
Main Author: Bar-Gill, Oren
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behavioural economics
Big Data
Budget constraint
consumer misperceptions
Consumers
Discrimination
Economic analysis
Economic theory
Economics
Price discrimination
Scrutiny
Segmentation
Willingness to pay
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Big Data
Budget constraint
consumer misperceptions
Consumers
Discrimination
Economic analysis
Economic theory
Economics
Price discrimination
Scrutiny
Segmentation
Willingness to pay
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