Essays in industrial organization

• Autor(a) principal: Castilho, Rafael de Braga
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10438/18079
• topic: Discriminação de preço; Custo de troca; Tarifa em duas partes; Price discrimination; Switching cost; Two-part tarif; Economia; Organização industrial; Preços - Discriminação; Fundo mútuo de renda fixa; Comportamento do consumidor

This thesis is composed of three articles, each one corresponding to a chapter. In the first chapter I analyze the extent to which the negative correlation between funds minimum initial application and fees can be explained by costs or rather reflect banks attempt to practice second-degree price discrimination. Using a structural model of consumer and pricing behavior I recover funds marginal cost and therefore compute how much of the fee variation are due to cost differences. In the second chapter I present a model of consumer and pricing behavior with switching costs to investigate how prices vary with different switching costs levels. In the third chapter I present a model of firm behavior in a oligopolistic market with two-part tariffs and heterogeneous agents. An estimation procedure is presented and a synthetic generated data is then used to recover the structural parameters.