Economics of Price Discrimination

Edited by George Norman, Professor of Economics and Cummings Family Chair of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics Emeritus, formerly Tufts University, US

• Contents:Acknowledgements • IntroductionPart I: First-Degree Price Discrimination1. Walter Y. Oi (1971), ‘ A Disneyland Dilemma: Two-Part Tariffs for a Mickey Mouse Monopoly’2. Robert D. Willig (1978), Pareto-superior Nonlinear Outlay Schedules’3. Richard Schmalensee (1981), ‘Monopolistic Two-Part Pricing Arrangements’4. Thomas J. Hoerger (1993), ‘Two-Part Pricing for Experience Goods in the Presence of Adverse Selection’Part II: Second-Degree Price Discrimination5. Michael Spence (1977), ‘Nonlinear Prices and Welfare’6. Eric Maskin and John Riley (1984), ‘Monopoly with Incomplete Information’7. M. Barry Goldman, Hayne E. Leland and David S. Sibley (1984), ‘Optimal Nonuniform Prices’8. Esther Gal-Or (1988), ‘Oligopolistic Nonlinear Tariffs’Part III: Third-Degree Price Discrimination9. Hal R. Varian (1985), ‘Price Discrimination and Social Welfare’10. Marius Schwartz (1990), ‘Third-Degree Price Discrimination and Output: Generalizing a Welfare Result’11. Stephen K. Layson (1994), ‘Market Opening under Third-Degree Price Discrimination’12. Theon van Dijk (1995), ‘Innovation Incentives through Third-Degree Price Discrimination in a Model of Patent Breadth’Part IV: Price Discrimination and Product Bundling13. William James Adams and Janet L. Yellen (1976), ‘Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly’14. Richard Schmalensee (1984), ‘Gaussian Demand and Commodity Bundling’15. R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan and Michael D. Whinston (1989), ‘Multiproduct Monopoly, Commodity Bundling and Correlation of Values’16. Brooks Pierce and Harold Winter (1996), ‘Pure vs. Mixed Commodity Bundling’Part V: Applications and ExtensionsASpatial Price Discrimination17. George Norman (1983), ‘Spatial Pricing with Differentiated Products’18. Phillip J. Lederer and Arthur P. Hurter, Jr. (1986), ‘Competition of Firms: Discriminatory Pricing and Location’19. Barnali Gupta, Amoz Kats and Debashis Pal (1994), ‘Upstream Monopoly, Downstream Competition and Spatial Price Discrimination’BIntertemporal Price Discrimination20. Nancy L. Stokey (1979), ‘Intertemporal Price Discrimination’21. Louis Phlips (1980), ‘Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Sticky Prices’22. Werner Güth, Peter Ockenfels and Klaus Ritzberger (1995), ‘On Durable Goods Monopolies: An Experimental Study of Intrapersonal Price Competition and Price Discrimination Over Time’CQuality Differentiation23. Michael Mussa and Sherwin Rosen (1978), ‘Monopoly and Product Quality’24. Christos Constantatos and Stylianos Perrakis (1997), ‘Vertical Differentiation: Entry and Market Coverage with Multiproduct Firms’25. Jean-Jaskold Gabszewicz, Avner Shaked, John Sutton and Jacques-François Thisse (1986), ‘Segmenting the Market: The Monopolist’s Optimal Product Mix’26. John E. Kwoka, Jr. (1992), ‘Market Segmentation by Price-Quality Schedules: Some Evidence from Automobiles’D Price Discrimination and Competition27. George Norman (1981), ‘Spatial Competition and Spatial Price Discrimination’28. W.B. MacLeod, G. Norman and J.-F. Thisse (1988), ‘Price Discrimination and Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition’29. Thomas J. Holmes (1989), ‘The Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Oligopoly’30. Helmut Bester and Emmanuel Petrakis (1996), ‘Coupons and Oligopolistic Price Discrimination’Part VI: The Legal Context and Deregulation31. Norman J. Ireland (1992), ‘On the Welfare Effects of Regulating Price Discrimination’32. Mark Armstrong and John Vickers (1993), ‘Price Discrimination, Competition and Regulation’33. George Norman and Jacques-François Thisse (1996), ‘Product Variety and Welfare under Tough and Soft Pricing Regimes’Name Index