Price Discrimination with Partial Information: Does it pay off?

Rosa Esteves ()

No 12/2008, NIPE Working Papers from NIPE - Universidade do Minho

Abstract: This paper investigates the profit effects of price discrimination when firms have partial information about consumer preferences. Using a two-dimensional model of product differentiation it shows that price discrimination can boost industriy profit if firms have acess to the right kind of information about consumer preferences while remaining ignorant of othet relevant information.

Date: 2008
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