Monday, November 17

Price discrimination

Definition
Seller charge different prices to different consumers for the same product. Increases total output and improves allocative efficiency.

Price discrimination requirements

  • A downward sloping demand curve, with two or more groups of customers with different price elasticity.
  • Ability to prevent arbitrage between customer groups, i.e. cannot resell among them.

Advantages:

  • Increase output and revenue
  • Reduce allocative inefficiency

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