Research Journal of Economics and Social Science

Articles

• THE PRICE OF PARADISE: TAX INCENTIVES AND TOURISM ALONG ITALY’S COASTS

  Sophie Maria Hofer

  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

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• THE COMPETITIVE EFFECTS OF INPUT PRICE DISCRIMINATION UNDER HORIZONTAL SHAREHOLDING

  Kenta Hiroshi Yamamoto

  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

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• THE ROLE OF SWITCHING COSTS IN SHAPING PERSONALIZED PRICING STRATEGIES

  Daichi Kenta Mori

  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

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• INCOME EFFECTS AND CONSUMER DEMAND IN THE ERA OF PRIVATIZATION

  Lorenzo Matteo Bianchi

  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,

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