The Value of Public Information in Monopoly (Q4531048)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1746863
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    The Value of Public Information in Monopoly
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1746863

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      The Value of Public Information in Monopoly (English)
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      28 May 2002
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      In the standard pricing monopoly problem, a monopolist offers a price-quantity menu to a single privately informed buyer. A question arising is whether a policy of revealing an additional public signal about the good is beneficial to the seller. The authors show that the expected profit of the monopolist cannot decrease by committing to reveal a signal affiliated to the buyer's private signal.
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