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Real estate prices in Brussels started to increase at a very rapid rate in 1987-1988. This happened a few years before the European Community had to decide whether the Commission would remain in Brussels, and whether the European Parliament would be moved to Brussels. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze whether the European Community influenced real estate rents in Brussels during tghe period 1980-1992, and whether this influence has increased over time. We find evidence of a significant rent increase due to the EC after 1988. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

AbstractThis article investigates the strategies of a data broker selling information to one or to two competing firms. The data broker combines segments of the consumer demand that allow firms to third‐degree price discriminate consumers. We show that the data broker (1) sells information on consumers with the highest willingness to pay; (2) keeps consumers with low willingness to pay unidentified. The data broker strategically chooses to withhold information on consumer demand to soften competition between firms. These results hold under first‐degree price discrimination, which is a limit case when information is perfect.