Summary
Conditions for Price Discrimination. A firm can price discriminate if it has market power, knows which consumers or groups of consumers are willing to pay more than others for the product, and can prevent customers who pay low prices from reselling to those who are willing to pay high prices. A firm earns a higher profit from price discrimination than from uniform pricing because (a) the firm captures additional consumer surplus from customers who are willing to pay more than the uniform price and (b) the firm sells to some people who would not buy at the uniform price.
Perfect Price Discrimination. To perfectly price discriminate, a firm charges each customer the maximum each is willing to pay for each unit of output. The firm captures ...
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