Behavior-based algorithmic pricing
In: Information economics and policy, Band 66, S. 101081
ISSN: 0167-6245
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In: Information economics and policy, Band 66, S. 101081
ISSN: 0167-6245
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In: HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2022-1459
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In: American economic review, Band 110, Heft 10, S. 3267-3297
ISSN: 1944-7981
Increasingly, algorithms are supplanting human decision-makers in pricing goods and services. To analyze the possible consequences, we study experimentally the behavior of algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence (Q-learning) in a workhorse oligopoly model of repeated price competition. We find that the algorithms consistently learn to charge supracompetitive prices, without communicating with one another. The high prices are sustained by collusive strategies with a finite phase of punishment followed by a gradual return to cooperation. This finding is robust to asymmetries in cost or demand, changes in the number of players, and various forms of uncertainty. (JEL D21, D43, D83, L12, L13)
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