主讲人：顾一泉

题目：Exclusive Data, Price Manipulation, and Market Leadership (排他消费者数据价格操纵与市场领导地位)

时间：2019年12月23日 下午3: 00

地点：邵逸夫科学馆第五会议室

内容摘要：The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms’ strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader’s role, and so to strategically manipulate its rival’s price. Prices and profits are non-monotonic in the length of the consumer list. For an intermediate size, price leadership entails a semi-collusive outcome, characterised by supra-competitive prices and low consumer surplus. In contrast, for short or long lists of consumers, exclusive data availability intensifies market competition.

简介：顾一泉（Yiquan Gu）目前在英国利物浦大学管理学院任经济学副教授。其研究领域主要为产业经济学与微观经济学理论。目前的研究侧重于信息中介、市场透明度、普通市场和金融市场企业的模糊策略等方向。其论文发表于International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters, Journal of Industrial Economics，Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation等国际知名期刊。