Price Transparency, Search, and Collusion in Markets

市场中的价格透明度、搜索和共谋

• 批准号: DP210102321
• 负责人: A/Prof Nicolas de Roos
• 金额: $ 22.28万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-05-11 至 2025-05-10
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP210102321
• 关键词: Price; Transparency; Search; Collusion; Markets

Online search platforms and 'open data' policies are emerging to empower consumers with price information for decision-making in markets, yet also can enable collusive pricing. This project aims to study the competitive impact of search platforms by combining large, real-time datasets on firm pricing and consumer search with natural and field experiments. The project expects to facilitate the development of new models of collusion, consumer search, and platform adoption. This should yield substantial benefit by modernizing competition policy for the digital age through novel data-driven screens for collusion, and policies to encourage platform adoption and enable consumers’ use of data in decision-making to increase competition in markets.

在线搜索平台和“开放数据”政策正在兴起，使消费者能够获得价格信息，以便在市场上做出决策，但也可能导致串通定价。该项目旨在通过将公司定价和消费者搜索的大型实时数据集与自然和实地实验相结合，研究搜索平台的竞争影响。该项目预计将促进共谋，消费者搜索和平台采用的新模式的发展。这将产生巨大的好处，通过新的数据驱动的勾结屏幕，鼓励平台采用和使消费者能够在决策中使用数据以增加市场竞争的政策，使数字时代的竞争政策现代化。