Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "quantity discounts"
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Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation
(DP SAM;06/2024, Working paper, 2024-05)This paper documents price discrimination by transport companies, revealing their market power. Larger shipments of similar products sharing a container receive lower prices. A trade model with non-linear pricing of ... -
Two part tariffs with partial product bundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001)When a firm operates in an industry with very large differences in consumers' willingness to pay for the service it offers, it faces a challenge in the pricing decision. It wants to engage in price discrimination, but ... -
Two-part tariffs with partial unbundling
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper explores second degree price discrimination in a multidimensional good context. There are two types of consumers with demand described by a two-dimensional vector, a quantity dimension and a service attribute ... -
Two-part tariffs with quality degradation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-03)There is a gap between the recommendations of the theory of second degree price discrimination and the practices of firms that target consumer segments with varying willingness to pay with two or more distinct tar- iffs. ...