Econometrica Vol. 52 No. 6 1984
Price Discrimination and Monopolistic Competition
Abstract
[I examine the effects of price discrimination on the equilibrium prices, number of firms, and level of total surplus in a monopolistically competitive market. The main finding is that uniform pricing is more (less) efficient than is price discrimination when the purchases made by the consumers who are discriminated against constitute a small (large) proportion of the total purchases.]
- DOI
- 10.2307/1913515
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1453
- Sources
- bibtex:phds-export.bib crossref openalex