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The Impact of Price Discrimination on Revenue: Evidence from the Concert Industry

The Review of Economics and Statistics 2012 94(1), 359-369 open access
Concert tickets can be sold at the same price or at different prices that reflect different seating categories. Price discrimination generates about 5% greater revenues than single-price ticketing. The return to price discrimination is higher in markets with greater demand heterogeneity, as predicted by price discrimination theory. The return to an increase from three to four concert seat categories is roughly half that of an increase from one to two.