Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature.

This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and output when all markets are sewed. Sufficient conditions — involving straightforward comparisons of the curvatures of the direct and inverse demand functions in the different market...

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Published in:American Economic Review Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1601 - 1616
Main Authors: Aguirre, Iñaki, Cowan, Simon, Vickers, John
Format: Article
Published: American Economic Association September 2010
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        Monopolies
        Price discrimination
        Mathematical models of economic competition
        Mathematical models of economics
        Welfare economics
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        Mathematical models
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          Monopolies
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          Mathematical models of economic competition
          Mathematical models of economics
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      ab: This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and output when all markets are sewed. Sufficient conditions — involving straightforward comparisons of the curvatures of the direct and inverse demand functions in the different markets — are presented for discrimination to have negative or positive effects on social welfare and output. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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