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What do variable online airline ticket prices and children's menu prices have in common? They both provide examples of price discrimination. The first allows an online provider to adjust pricing ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) withdrew the agency’s lawsuit against Pepsi Cola for allegedly violating the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA). The withdrawal was supported by all three members of the ...

Airlines have always used a multitude of proxies to determine customers’ willingness to pay: how far in advance people are booking, whether they’re going one-way or return, whether they’re staying a ...

Summer is underway, and it’s the perfect time to plan a getaway. After spending days deciding where you would like to go, you finally pick a destination. Flights are only a click away, right? But once ...

On December 12, 2024, following a nearly two-year-long investigation, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated its first litigation under the Robinson-Patman Act (RPA)[1] in more than two decades.

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A window display at an A&P store in Manhattan in the 1930s. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Perspective by Marc Levinson In 1909, the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company offered a ...

This is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core Econ together with our listeners. Price discrimination is baked into a ...

This article discusses the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and recent enforcement actions that have revived "a depression-era prohibition on price discrimination that had since fallen out of favor with ...

This isn't just theoretical. I was approached by a consultant representing large U.S. employers who were exploring pharmacy tourism that would send patients abroad for their drugs. The controversy ...

On January 10, 2023 Politico reported that the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has launched antitrust investigations into Pepsi and Coca Cola. 1 According to the article, the “companies’ pricing ...