Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)

Published: 2025-05-29

Articles

  • THE PRICE OF PARADISE: TAX INCENTIVES AND TOURISM ALONG ITALY’S COASTS
    Sophie Maria Hofer
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525066

    This paper investigates how tourism taxes are used by municipalities to attract tourists. We analyze how municipalities compete among each other, explicitly accounting for the spatial dimension. This paper provides a novel contribution to the literature on tax competition by explicitly modeling

    1-17
  • THE COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF INPUT PRICE DISCRIMINATION UNDER HORIZONTAL SHAREHOLDING
    Kenta Hiroshi Yamamoto
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525068

    Price discrimination has substantial social and policy implications and has received attention in the literature. However, prior research on input price discrimination has primarily been limited to single-input situations. We explore the strategic desirability of uniform pricing and contribute

    18-31
  • THE ROLE OF SWITCHING COSTS IN SHAPING PERSONALIZED PRICING STRATEGIES
    Daichi Kenta Mori
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525070

    Behavior-based price discrimination is a pricing strategy frequently observed in membership-based services and it has been studied widely in the literature. This paper considers a two-period behavior-based price discrimination model in which there are two distinct types of consumers with

    32-67
  • INCOME EFFECTS AND CONSUMER DEMAND IN THE ERA OF PRIVATIZATION
    Lorenzo Matteo Bianchi
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525072

    The question raised in this paper is whether and how some core features of income distribution, e.g. the income levels or income inequality, should be relevant in the decision to privatize public firms. The paper provides a first answer in the framework of mixed oligopoly theory. In particular,

    68-81