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Price Discrimination ∗
In broad terms, one can say that price discrimination exists when two “similar” products which have the same marginal cost to produce are sold by a firm at different prices.1 This practice is often highly controversial in terms of its impact on both consumers and rivals. This chapter aims to explain some of the main economic motives for price discrimination, and to outline when this practice wi...
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journey, same date, same time, same comfort class) is sold at different prices1. ∗We gratefully acknowledge travel funding from the CNRS and NSF under grants INT9815703 and GA10273, and research funding under grant SES 0452864 . We thank Anita Anderson, Alain Béraud, Catherine de Fontenay, Robin Lindsey, André de Palma, Emile Quinet, and Sarah Tulman for their comments and suggestions. We would...
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We analyze the profitability of third degree price discrimination under consideration of consumers’ fairness concerns within an experiment and explain the results within a theoretical framework. We find that with an increase in the price differential negative reciprocal reactions by disadvantaged consumers become stronger compared to positive reciprocal reactions by advantaged consumers. Conseq...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Australian Economic Papers
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0004-900X,1467-8454
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8454.12114