Identification of Direct Socio-Geographical Price Discrimination: An Empirical Study on iPhones
社会地理价格歧视的识别:iPhone 实证研究
Price discrimination is a practice where firms utilize varying sensitivities to prices among consumers to increase profits. The welfare effects of price discrimination are not agreed on among economists, but identification of such actions may contribute to our standing of firms' pricing behaviors. In this letter, I use econometric tools to analyze whether Apple Inc, one of the largest companies in the globe, is practicing price discrimination on the basis of socio-economical…