Automated personalised pricing practices online

Gergely G. Karácsony

doi:10.25167/osap.1223

Published: 2019-09-18

Vol. 16 No. 4 (2) (2018)

Automated personalised pricing practices online

Gergely G. Karácsony

The Opole Studies in Administration and Law

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1223

Abstract

The paper discusses the problem of practices of online automated personalised pricing in Internet-based trading. The first part concerns the economics of price discrimination; the second discusses the ways this can be carried out in an online shopping environment, and the third one deals with legal aspects of the personalised pricing online practice. Finally, the author tries to assess the question whether personalised pricing is illegal, immoral, or just something we do not feel entirely comfortable about.

Keywords:

automated personalised pricing, price discrimination, online trade, legal aspects of personalised pricing

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Karácsony, G. G. (2019). Automated personalised pricing practices online. The Opole Studies in Administration and Law, 16(4 (2), 75–85. https://doi.org/10.25167/osap.1223

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