Price Discrimination ∗
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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 also like to thank Melbourne Business School and the Autoridade da Concorrencia in Lisbon for their hospitality. Department of Economics, University of Virginia, PO Box 400182, Charlottesville VA 22904-4128, USA. [email protected] ThEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 33 Bd. du Port, 95011, Cergy Cedex, FRANCE and Institut Universitaire de France. [email protected] 1Price discrimination is also common in other transportation services in addition to rail and air travel. Odlyzko (2004) provides examples from maritime transport, inland waterways,
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