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Dual Pricing in a Model of Sales
CEPR
2025.06.24
We study the competitive effects of dual pricing, a vertical restraint that involves charging a distributor different prices for units intended to be resold online versus offline. We develop a model in which a manufacturer contracts with hybrid retailers selling both in-store and online. We find that, by eliminating wasteful price dispersion, dual pricing allows the manufacturer to induce the industry monopoly outcome, whereas uniform pricing does not. Despite this, a ban on dual pricing has negative welfare effects if the online market is small, if the offline consumers‘ search costs are high, and if the monopoly pass-through is high.