报告题目：Input price discrimination: The role of pass-through
报 告 人：郭东宇
报告时间：2024年5月16日（周四）9：00—10：30
报告地点：问源阁419
主办单位：产业组织与企业组织研究中心
【报告人简介】
Dr Dongyu Guo is an Associate Professor at Institute of East Asian Education. Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of industrial organization, competition policy, regulation, and, more broadly, applied microeconomic theory. She has published in prestigious international Economics journals, such as European Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and Review of Economic Design.
【报告摘要】
This work investigates input price discrimination under secret contracting between a manufacturer and competing retailers, whose activities exhibit retail effort spillovers. The economic effects of discriminatory pricing hinge upon the pass-through rate of input price to retail quantity, which is defined according to the contractual structure (linear or two-part tariffs). Such pass-through varies with retail effort spillovers and product differentiation. Furthermore, discriminatory pricing is welfare superior if and only if it magnifies the pass-through rate of production cost to input or retail price. Our results deliver novel insights into the role of pass-through in the antitrust assessment of input price discrimination.
