@article{7d0e5b9fa57944608e2b39d2ed684c62,
title = "Price discrimination and market concentration: Evidence from the laundry detergent market",
abstract = "I analyse the relationship between price discrimination, with respect to the package size of the product, and market concentration in the liquid laundry detergent market. Specifically, I study how quantity discounts change with market concentration. I estimate a fixed effects model and find that this relationship is non-monotonic and I provide evidence that it is U-shaped. These results suggest that firms offer more quantity discounts in less and more concentrated markets, while they offer less quantity discounts in moderately concentrated markets.",
keywords = "market concentration, non-linear pricing, price discrimination, quantity discounts",
author = "Thiago Cacicedo",
note = "Funding Information: I thank Joel Sandon{\'i}s, Pedro Albarr{\'a}n, Lola Collado as well as seminar participants at the University of Alicante. I am also grateful to the Editor and an anonymous referee for very helpful comments and suggestions. I would like to thank Information Resources Inc. for making the data available. All estimates and analysis in this paper based on Information Resources Inc. data are by the author and not by Information Resources Inc. Financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a, Industria y Competitividad and the European Social Fund under project ECO2015-65820-P is acknowledged. All errors and omissions are my responsibility. Funding Information: I thank Joel Sandon{\'i}s, Pedro Albarr{\'a}n, Lola Collado as well as seminar participants at the University of Alicante. I am also grateful to the Editor and an anonymous referee for very helpful comments and suggestions. I would like to thank Information Resources Inc. for making the data available. All estimates and analysis in this paper based on Information Resources Inc. data are by the author and not by Information Resources Inc. Financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a, Industria y Competitividad and the European Social Fund under project ECO2015‐65820‐P is acknowledged. All errors and omissions are my responsibility. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The University of Manchester and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/manc.12380",
language = "English",
volume = "89",
pages = "594--609",
journal = "Manchester School",
issn = "1463-6786",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "6",
}