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dc.contributor.advisorKind, Hans Jarle
dc.contributor.authorEidhamar, Eirik
dc.contributor.authorHelberg, Magnus Strand
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T11:55:02Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T11:55:02Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2778635
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we examine firms’ choice of price policy, uniform or personalized prices, in the digital economy. We focus on firms operating in the digital economy as the prevalence of big data allows firms in this industry the opportunity to apply personalized pricing. We survey relevant literature on product differentiation, two-sided markets and first-degree price discrimination in spatial models. Further, we propose a Hotelling model of a twosided market consisting of symmetric firms, consumers and advertisers. The firms choose their pricing policies, invest in product quality and set the prices in the advertiser and consumer market. To our knowledge, the model is the first of its kind to combine the choice of price policy, the presence of a two-sided market and quality investments in the same framework. We present two versions of the model, a one-sided duopoly model and a two-sided duopoly model. In the one-sided model we find that the firms will always choose to price discriminate as it constitutes a dominant strategy, complementing the early literature on the field. In contrast, we show that in the two-sided model with an adequately large advertiser market, the optimal price policy strategy is characterized by a mixed strategy. Thus, the firms will not always choose to price discriminate with the introduction of an advertiser market. For the firms, a large advertisement market drives costly quality investments. This has implications on the choice of price policy as pricing uniformly softens the competition in quality relative to personalized pricing.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.subjecteconomicsen_US
dc.subjecteconomic analysisen_US
dc.titleOn the Choice of Uniform or Personalized Prices in the Digital Economy : Spatial Price Policy in Two-Sided Marketsen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.description.localcodenhhmasen_US


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