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
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 14-140/VIII
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Monopoly
Air Transportation
- Thema
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Price discrimination
congestion
time valuation
monopoly
airline
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Czerny, Achim I.
Zhang, Anming
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Czerny, Achim I.
- Zhang, Anming
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2014