直接社会地理价格歧视的识别--基于iPhones的实证研究
Identification of Direct Socio-Geographical Price Discrimination: An Empirical Study on iPhones
摘要：
价格歧视是一种企业利用消费者对价格的不同敏感度来增加利润的做法。价格歧视的福利效应在经济学家中没有达成一致，但这种行为的识别可能有助于我们对公司定价行为的立场。在这封信中，我使用计量经济学工具来分析苹果公司，全球最大的公司之一，是否正在实行价格歧视的基础上，社会经济和地理因素。我的研究结果表明，在竞争较弱或苹果拥有强大市场地位的市场中，iPhone的价格要高得多（p $<$ 0.01）。此外，在发展中国家/地区或收入不平等程度较高的市场，iPhone价格可能会上涨（p $<$ 0.01）。
英文摘要：
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 and geographical factors. My results indicate that iPhones are significantly (p $<$ 0.01) more expensive in markets where competitions are weak or where Apple has a strong market presence. Furthermore, iPhone prices are likely to increase (p $<$ 0.01) in developing countries/regions or markets with high income inequality.
机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来，可能存在错误，请以论文正文为准。
