@techreport{NBERw15019, title = "A Dynamic Model of Price Discrimination and Inventory Management at the Fulton Fish Market", author = "Kathryn Graddy and George Hall", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "15019", year = "2009", month = "May", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15019", abstract = {We estimate a dynamic profit-maximization model of a fish wholesaler who can observe consumer characteristics, set individual prices, and thus engage in third-degree price discrimination. Simulated prices and quantities from the model exhibit the key features observed in a set of high quality transaction-level data on fish sales collected at the Fulton fish market. The model's predictions are then compared to the case in which the dealer must post a single price to all customers. We find the cost to the dealer of posting a uniform price to be extremely small.}, }