31E11100 - Microeconomics: Pricing, Lecture, 4.9.2023-18.10.2023
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Reading assignment 2 (due 13.9. at 10:15)
Reading assignment 2:
The paper for this assignment is “Personalized Pricing and Consumer Welfare” by Jean-Pierre Dubé and Sanjog Misra, Journal of Political Economy (2023), available at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/720793 or https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2992257
Browse through the paper overall, but in particular read carefully the Introduction and parts of Section 4 describing the setup of the experiment. Answer the following:
1. Explain what the authors want to find out in this study and how they approach the problem. Why do they carry out two experiments?
2. Why do you think the studied question might be an interesting one from the policy makers’ perspective?