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  1. Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study.Deni Mazrekaj, Mark D. Verhagen, Ajay Kumar & Daniel Muzio - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-21.
    Merchants often use personalized pricing: they charge different consumers different prices for the same product. We assess the ethicality of personalized pricing by generalizing and extending an earlier model by Coker and Izaret (Journal of Business Ethics 173:387–398, 2021) who found that price personalization ethically outperforms unitary pricing. Using a simulation analysis, we show that these results crucially depend on the choice of parameters and do not hold universally. We further incorporate additional sources of marginal cost into the utility function (...)
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  • Solidarity Among Strangers During Natural Disasters: How Economic Insights May Improve Our Understanding of Virtues.Alexander Reese & Ingo Pies - 2024 - The Journal of Ethics 28 (2):361-381.
    The renaissance of Aristotelian virtue ethics has produced an extensive philosophical literature that criticizes markets for a lack of virtues. Drawing on Michael Sandel’s virtue-ethical critique of price gouging during natural disasters, we (1) identify and clarify serious misunderstandings in recurring price-gouging debates between virtue-ethical critics and economists. Subsequently, (2) we respond to Sandel’s call for interdisciplinary dialogue. However, instead of solely calling on economics to embrace insights from virtue ethics, we prefer a two-sided version of interdisciplinary dialogue and argue (...)
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  • The ethics of online steering.András Miklós & Jeanine Miklós-Thal - 2024 - Ethics and Information Technology 26 (3):1-14.
    This paper offers an ethical analysis of online steering, the practice of personalizing search results in e-commerce based on data about users. We first outline the parallels and differences between online steering and price discrimination, arguing that online steering is more likely to benefit consumers and enhance social welfare than price discrimination. Next, we argue that while online steering does not violate any plausible specification of the equal-treatment norm, it involves an element of manipulation that is absent in price discrimination (...)
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