Price discrimination and the location choice of a durable goods monopoly
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Price discrimination and the location choice of a durable goods monopoly
Delivered pricing by a spatial monopoly amounts to third degree price discrimination. Well known results in spatial economics show that the monopolist location choice is efficient under delivered pricing and generally inefficient under mill pricing. By contrast, the present paper shows that if the monopolist sells a durable good, the location is also inefficient under delivered pricing. 2002 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Regional Science and Urban Economics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0166-0462
DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0462(01)00102-8