Price discrimination is increasing in prevalence across modern markets.
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Recent economic and legal literature confirms that the adoption of advanced algorithms and surveillance data is increasing the prevalence of personalized price discrimination across modern digital markets.
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Price–matching Guarantees in the Age of Algorithms: A Model of Collusion, Discrimination and the Welfare Trade-off
2025 · cited by 0
The paper discusses how real-time algorithms enable online oligopolies to infer consumer elasticities and generate algorithmic price discrimination.
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Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Balancing Efficiency and Consumer Welfare
2025 · cited by 0
The article notes that algorithmic pricing facilitates personalized offers and discriminatory pricing across digital markets.
Market Failures Within Algorithmic Pricing: The Information Asymmetry Ethics Behind Surveillance Pricing and Consumer Privacy
2026 · cited by 0
The paper explains how companies increasingly favor algorithmic pricing and surveillance-based information asymmetry to implement personalized pricing.