A Critique on the Theory of Linear Price Monopoly

Nir Dagan (nir@nirdagan.com)

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Abstract: We show that the absence of friction between consumers is not sufficient for linear pricing by a monopolist. On the contrary, it is shown that this situation allows the monopolist to achieve perfect discrimination.

Keywords: Monopoly; linear pricing; friction; price discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 1998-01-15, Revised 1998-09-25
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