Consumer Scores and Price Discrimination

We study the implications of aggregating consumers' purchase histories into scores that proxy for unobserved willingness to pay. A long-lived consumer interacts with a sequence of firms. Each firm relies on the consumer's current score-a linear aggregate of noisy purchase signals - to lear...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bonatti, Alessandro, Cisternas, Gonzalo
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129703