Market Design

I post market design related news and items about repugnant markets. See my Stanford profile. I have a forthcoming book : Moral Economics The subtitle is "From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About How Markets Work."

Showing posts with label service. Show all posts

Showing posts with label service. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Discriminatory pricing for discriminatory services

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

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Service upgrades

This sentence is, in my experience, more typical of service upgrades than its author perhaps realized. "We are enhancing your online ...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

The market for knife sharpening

There was a time when knife sharpeners brought their grindstones to the meat packers and butchers who were their main customers, and sharpen...

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Service versus self service

In some markets you serve yourself, in others you are served. Which is the luxury? It depends. The recent decisions by some universities to ...

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