Arbeitspapier

Third-degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Congestion Externality

This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality when all markets are served. The model features the business-passenger and leisure-passenger markets where business passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less price-elastic demand, than leisure passengers. Our main result is the identification of the time-valuation effect of price discrimination, which can work in the opposite direction as the well-known output effect on welfare. This time-valuation effect clearly explains why discriminating prices can improve welfare even when this is associated with a reduction in aggregate output.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 14-140/VIII

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Monopoly
Air Transportation
Thema
Price discrimination
congestion
time valuation
monopoly
airline

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Czerny, Achim I.
Zhang, Anming
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Czerny, Achim I.
  • Zhang, Anming
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2014

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