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1
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price discrimination

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occurs when different people are charged different prices for the same good

2
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examples of price discrimination

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movie tickets are cheaper for old people and students

3
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What are the necessary conditions for price discrimination?

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Price setting ability

  • must be able to charge different prices for different consumers
  • cannot be perfectly competitive firm (can only charge market price)

Varied consumer elasticities

  • if demand more rigid for some consumers can charge more for the good

Ability to separate consumers

  • must be difficult for those able to buy at the cheaper price to resell to higher-price customers
  • time, age, income, gender
4
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first-degree price discrimination

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when firms are able to charge exactly the maximum price that each customer is willing to pay

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What does first-degree price discrimination presume?

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  1. ability of firm to separate customers individually
  2. charge the exact reservation price for each customer
  3. some insight by firms into the precise elasticity of demand for a good
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first-degree price discrimination graph for perfectly competitive market (surpluses)

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7
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first-degree price discrimination for a monopoly (surpluses)

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8
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What is the result of first-degree price discrimination?

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  • consumer surplus completely eliminated
  • profits greatly expanded
  • output is greater
  • area of welfare loss eliminated (perhaps benefit in terms of efficiency)
  • allocative efficiency reached with final price
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examples of first-degree price discrimination

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  1. car sales
  2. real estate agents
10
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second-degree price discrimination

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firms offer lower prices with the purchase of successively larger quantities

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examples of second-degree price discrimination

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  • tickets to concerts or sport’s events
  • charging less for additional units
  • reward programmes offered to loyal buyers
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graph for second-degree price discrimination

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13
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results of second-degree price discrimination

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total revenue increases over single-price firm

approaches (but does not achieve) allocative efficiency

likely to earn greater economic profits

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third-degree price discrimination

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groups of different price elasticities separated and charged the highest price possible

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examples of third-degree price discrimination

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  • women charged more than men for dry cleaning
  • phone companies offering lower prices at off-peak times
  • cinemas charging less to children, elderly people, and students
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graph for third-degree price discrimination

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17
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effect of price discrimination of firms

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  • profits and total revenue increase
  • monopoly power over consumers
  • deadweight losses reduced/eliminated
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effect of price discrimination on consumers

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  • output increased so good available to consumers who would have been left out in single-price situation
  • pay higher prices overall
  • consumer surplus reduced