Showing posts with label pricing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pricing. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2025

William Vickrey on congestion pricing, in today's NYT

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  William Vickrey won the Nobel prize in 1996, and died of a heart attack, on the road from New York City, before he could go to Stockholm...
Monday, January 10, 2022

The price of nails since 1695

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 If your friends and relatives wonder why economists write about the things we do, this interesting paper should reassure them that someone ...
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Shrouded prices for blood tests in the U.S.

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One of the features of the American health care system is that prices are heavily shrouded--insurance companies reach negotiated prices wit...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Donating eggs for fertility: an update

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Slate brings us up to date: INSIDE THE QUIETLY LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF DONATING HUMAN EGGS "The first US child conceived from a dona...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Would government compensation of kidney donors help or hurt the poor?

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Here's an article in PLOS ONE that asks a question whose answer is often simply assumed by those who oppose compensation for kidney don...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Free versus predatory prices

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Here's a new paper exploring the anti-competitive effects of giving things away for free: An Introduction to the Competition Law and...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Modern congestion pricing, by Cramton, Geddes and Ockenfels

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Here's a short paper in the July 31 Nature: Set road charges in real time to ease traffic Track vehicles to link tolls with demand an...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Too many traffic jams: an interview with Stanford's Mike Ostrovsky (and a paper by Ostrovsky and Schwarz)

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Mike Ostrovsky at Stanford GSB is interviewed on technology and traffic: An End to Traffic Jams? It Might Not Be a Dream And here's...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Uber, surge pricing, and how much battery life is left in your phone (they know)

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The Telegraph has the (scary) story, after chatting with Keith Chen :  Uber knows customers with dying batteries are more likely to accept ...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Discriminatory pricing for discriminatory services

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I remember initially being surprised that security lines at airlines would be shorter for higher fare travelers, but Americans are getting ...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Bargaining, and the law of one price on the internet: Axiomatic Models of Bargaining

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Sometimes price variation on the internet is explained by search costs, etc., but below is an example that is hard to explain that way, si...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach, by Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu

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Here's a book I haven't had a chance to see yet, but looks worthwhile: Dynamic Allocation and Pricing A Mechanism Design Approac...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Personalization of prices, and other things, on the web

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Elizabeth Dwoskin has the story in the WSJ: Why You Can’t Trust You’re Getting the Best Deal Online A Study Finds Discriminatory Pricing ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Tourism pricing at the Jaipur observatory

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Here's the price list... And well worth it, to see a sculpture garden of assorted sundials of varying sophistication:
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

State laws against price gouging

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Michael Giberson provides this list : State Year Notes Alabama 1996 Code of Ala. § 8-31-1 thru § 8-31-6.  LINK Alabama law ; ...