Third-degree price discrimination, quality choice, and welfare

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2010
Volume: 106
Issue: 1
Pages: 54-56

Authors (2)

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Abstract

Employing an endogenous quality choice model, we reconsider the effect on welfare of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination. We prove that price discrimination always enhances welfare, mainly because the quality improvement owing to price discrimination increases consumer surplus. Moreover, we show that third-degree price discrimination benefits all parties, including consumers in the higher priced market if the preference differences between markets are sufficiently large.

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RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:106:y:2010:i:1:p:54-56
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-29