Costly price discrimination

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2008
Volume: 99
Issue: 1
Pages: 206-208

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Standard theory neglects that enacting price discrimination is costly to firms. When this costliness is accounted for, perfect price discrimination is often socially inefficient. For pure monopolists it is sometimes socially inefficient. For monopolistic competitors it is always socially inefficient.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:99:y:2008:i:1:p:206-208
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25