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The welfare effects of third‐degree price discrimination with nonlinear demand functions

The welfare effects of third‐degree price discrimination with nonlinear demand functions The welfare effects of third‐degree price discrimination are analyzed when demand in one market is an additively shifted version of demand in the other market and both markets are served with uniform pricing. Social welfare is lower with discrimination if the slope of demand is log concave or the convexity of demand is nondecreasing in the price. The demand functions commonly used in models of imperfect competition satisfy at least one of these sufficient conditions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Rand Journal of Economics Wiley

The welfare effects of third‐degree price discrimination with nonlinear demand functions

The Rand Journal of Economics , Volume 38 (2) – Jun 1, 2007

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
2007 RAND
ISSN
0741-6261
eISSN
1756-2171
DOI
10.1111/j.1756-2171.2007.tb00075.x
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Abstract

The welfare effects of third‐degree price discrimination are analyzed when demand in one market is an additively shifted version of demand in the other market and both markets are served with uniform pricing. Social welfare is lower with discrimination if the slope of demand is log concave or the convexity of demand is nondecreasing in the price. The demand functions commonly used in models of imperfect competition satisfy at least one of these sufficient conditions.

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The Rand Journal of EconomicsWiley

Published: Jun 1, 2007

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