Regional Bell Operating Company entry into long-distance and non-price discrimination against rival interexchange carriers: empirical evidence from panel data

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 269-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Zimmerman
2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Grennan

Many important issues in business-to-business markets involve price discrimination and negotiated prices, situations where theoretical predictions are ambiguous. This paper uses new panel data on buyer-supplier transfers and a structural model to empirically analyze bargaining and price discrimination in a medical device market. While many phenomena that restrict different prices to different buyers are suggested as ways to decrease hospital costs (e.g., mergers, group purchasing organizations, and transparency), I find that: (i) more uniform pricing works against hospitals by softening competition; and (ii) results depend ultimately on a previously unexplored bargaining effect. (JEL C78, L13, L14, L64)


2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zélia Serrasqueiro ◽  
Paulo Maçãs Nunes ◽  
Jacinto Vidigal da Silva

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