Publications
E.CA Economists publish regularly in academic journals, competition and regulation journals and the more popular business press. We speak frequently at conferences, workshops and symposiums.
Flight to Where? Evidence from Bank Investments During the Financial Crisis
Thomas Hildebrand, Jörg Rocholl and Alexander Schulz presented at the 7th FIRS Annual Conference, Minneapolis, 1-4 June 2012
Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry
Keywords: competition, mobile telecommunications
ETNO and Total Telecom Regulatory Summit
Keynote address: “Costing methodologies and investments into Fibre infrastructure”
Keywords: telecommunications
The economics of public support to the European car industry
Parental income and child health in Germany
Vertical Control of a Distribution Network – Evidence from Magazines
Does community-based health insurance protect household assets? Evidence from rural Africa
Costing Methodologies and Incentives to Invest in Fibre
Defending Cartels in Regulatory Investigations – The Role of Economics
Keywords: cartel, private litigation
Price Discrimination and Fairness Concerns
We analyze the profitability of third degree price discrimination under consideration of consumers’ fairness concerns within an experiment and explain the results within a theoretical framework. We find that with an increase in the price differential negative reciprocal reactions by disadvantaged consumers become stronger compared to positive reciprocal reactions by advantaged consumers. Consequently, the profit maximizing price differential lies below the one predicted to be optimal by standard theory. Further, profitability increases when consumers who are regarded as poorer are charged lower prices compared to when the wealth of the different consumer groups is unknown.
Keywords: experimental economics, inequity aversion, price discrimination, reciprocal fairness