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...
| Published in: | American Economic Review Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1601 - 1616 |
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American Economic Association
September 2010
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