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”政策的出现，使消费者能够获得价格信息以进行市场决策，同时也可以实现串通定价。该项目旨在通过结合大型实时数据集来研究搜索平台的竞争影响。该项目预计将通过新颖的数据驱动实现数字时代竞争政策的现代化，从而促进共谋、消费者搜索和平台采用的新模型的开发。碰撞筛查和鼓励政策平台采用并使消费者能够在决策中使用数据，以增加市场竞争。