Artikel

Partial price discrimination by an upstream monopolist

We analyze third degree price discrimination by an upstream monopolist to a continuum of heterogeneous downstream firms. The novelty of our approach is to recognize that customizing prices may be costly. As a consequence, partial price discrimination arises in equilibrium; in particular,we showthat inefficient downstream firms receive personalized prices whereas efficient firms are charged a uniform price. The extreme cases of complete price discrimination and uniform price arise in our setting as particular cases, depending on the cost of customizing prices.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association ; ISSN: 1869-4195 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 217-231 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification
Wirtschaft
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
Subject
price discrimination
input markets
Preisdifferenzierung
Monopol
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bru, Lluís
Faulí-Oller, Ramon
Sandonís, Joel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Springer
(where)
Heidelberg
(when)
2011

DOI
doi:10.1007/s13209-010-0030-7
Handle
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Bru, Lluís
  • Faulí-Oller, Ramon
  • Sandonís, Joel
  • Springer

Time of origin

  • 2011

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