Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210102321

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP210102321

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Price Transparency, Search, and Collusion in Markets. Online search platforms and 'open data' policies are emerging to empower consumers with price information for decision-making in markets, yet also can enable collusive pricing. This project aims to study the competitive impact of search platforms by combining large, real-time datasets on firm pricing and consumer search with natural and field experiments. The project expects to facilitate the development of new models of collusion, consumer search, and platform adoption. This should yield substantial benefit by modernizing competition policy for the digital age through novel data-driven screens for collusion, and policies to encourage platform adoption and enable consumers’ use of data in decision-making to increase competition in markets.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-05-2021

End Date: 10-05-2025

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $311,801.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation | Applied Economics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Industrial Organisations |

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Industrial Organisations | Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation

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