• Medientyp: Bericht; E-Book
  • Titel: Third-degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Congestion Externality
  • Beteiligte: Czerny, Achim I. [Verfasser:in]; Zhang, Anming [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Amsterdam and Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute, 2014
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: airline ; Price discrimination ; time valuation ; L93 ; congestion ; D42 ; monopoly
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  • Beschreibung: This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality when all markets are served. The model features the business-passenger and leisure-passenger markets where business passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less price-elastic demand, than leisure passengers. Our main result is the identification of the time-valuation effect of price discrimination, which can work in the opposite direction as the well-known output effect on welfare. This time-valuation effect clearly explains why discriminating prices can improve welfare even when this is associated with a reduction in aggregate output.
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