algorithmic-pricing
4 free lessons tagged algorithmic-pricing across Business. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
The Enforcement Gap
Competition law was built to catch people agreeing in rooms. What happens when the coordination has no agreement, no communication, and no human intent, and how regulators are responding anyway.
Real Markets and Serious Pushback
What happened to margins when German petrol stations adopted pricing software, and the substantial body of research arguing the simulation results are fragile, parameter-dependent, and may not survive contact with real markets.
The Collusion Experiments
The simulation result that started an entire literature: independent Q-learning agents converging on supra-competitive prices with punishment strategies, nobody having programmed them to, and what the mechanism actually is.
How Pricing Algorithms Actually Work
From revenue management to reinforcement learning: the mechanics of software that sets prices, the distinction between following rules and learning a policy, and why that distinction turns out to be the one that matters.