Intertemporal price discrimination in frictionless durable goods monopolies

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作者
Kuhn, KU
机构
[1] CEMFI, Madrid 28014, Spain
[2] CSIC, Inst Anal Econ, Barcelona, Spain
来源
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS | 1998年 / 46卷 / 01期
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F8 [财政、金融];
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0202 ;
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I show that small differences in quality and production costs between durables and non-durables in a product line allow a durable goods monopolist to intertemporally price discriminate even with continuous trading. In particular, a monopolist would want to both sell and rent out a durable to achieve price discrimination. This incentive to price discriminate simultaneously creates inefficient delay in the sale of the durable good, a finite trading period and long run efficiency of the market. The Cease conjecture fails because the non-durable good acts as an outside option that guarantees a minimum profit in the market for durables.
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页码:101 / 114
页数:14
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