Price Discrimination

Airlines in Asia Offer Personalized Prices by Age, Race, Gender (1/23/1999)

Airlines in Asia Offer Personalized Prices by Age, Race, Gender.

Keywords: airfare discounts, airlines, price discrimination

Banks and Others Base Their Service On Their Most Profitable Customers (8/31/1999)

Under intense competition, banks pamper their best customers.

Keywords: banks, competition, deposit, fees, good customers, price discrimination

Border Patrol (2/27/2007)

To enhance profit, businesses often sell non-interoperable versions of the same products in different markets.

Keywords: DVD, movie, Palm Zaire, price discrimination, printer, product cycle, region code, region locks

Capping the Sky (9/11/2007)

Death-postponing cancer drugs command high prices because of the third-party payment health insurance system.

Keywords: cancer drugs, co-payments, drug prices, health insurance, prescription drugs, price cap, price discrimination, third party payment

DVD or Wait (4/19/2001)

Film companies can increase their revenues by releasing higher-priced DVD's before lower-priced videocassettes.

Keywords: demand elasticity, DVD, movie, price discrimination, revenue maximization, video tape, videocassette

Discriminating Business Sense (3/30/2001)

Club owner increases revenue by charging customers according to their demand elasticity.

Keywords: bar, club, cover charge, demand elasticity, price discount, price discrimination, women

Fare Game (11/9/2001)

The pricing strategy of charging premium prices for business travels and deeply discounted prices for leisure travels has fallen apart amid a slowing economy and fear of on-air terrorist attacks.

Keywords: airfares, airlines, business travel, demand elasticity, leisure travel, price discounting, price discrimination, price elasticity

The Internet has made it possible to replace fixed pricing with flexible pricing based on changing supply and demand conditions. Spot pricing will lead to a more efficient market with winners and losers.

Keywords: auctions, commodities, efficiency, exchanges, fixed pricing, flexible pricing, price discrimination, Spot pricing

Get in Where You Fit in (4/3/2003)

Quoting room rates according to the guest's elasticity of demand improves the bottom line when there is surplus capacity.

Keywords: fixed cost, hotel, price discrimination, profit, room rates, Senior discount, surplus capacity, variable cost

Gray Market (11/5/1999)

Gray markets appear when cheaper goods in one market are diverted to compete with more expensive but similar goods in another market.

Keywords: cigarettes., distributors, diversion, diverters, gray market, high-end market, low-end market, parallel imports, price discrimination

Is Imitation a Flattery or a Ripoff? (1/10/2007)

High-end-orientated garment fashion designers leave a lot of money on the table for the knockoff competitors.

Keywords: Armani, copyright, fashion, flattery, high-end market, imitation, knockoff, Kohl's, mass market, piracy, Prada, price discrimination, ripoff, Vera Wang

Make Me an Offer (3/26/2007)

A salesman on commission has an incentive to practice perfect price discrimination.

Keywords: commission, consumer surplus, haggling, incentive, perfect price discrimination, price searcher

Marginal Revenue of Perfect Price Discriminators (11/17/2007)

The marginal revenue of perfect price discriminators is equal to price.

Keywords: economic surplus, efficiency, marginal revenue, marginal willingness to pay, MR, MWP, P, perfect price discrimination, price, profit maximization, reservation price, total willingness to pay, TWP

Rebate Coupons (9/11/2007)

Mail-in rebate coupons succeed in promoting sales at relatively low cost because of low redemption rates.

Keywords: discount coupons, price discrimination, product promotion, rebate coupons, redemption hurdles

Virtual Scalping (6/21/2004)

Sports teams and other entertainment promoters use online secondary ticket auction market to compete with scalpers while sticking to uniform pricing for the primary market.

Keywords: Internet, online auction, price discrimination, primary market, secondary market, ticket scalping, uniform pricing