Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information

We consider a monopolistic supplier's optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Economic journal (London) 2014-06, Vol.124 (577), p.776-804
Hauptverfasser:	Herweg, Fabian, Müller, Daniel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Cost reduction Decision analysis Economic costs Investment Manufacturing output Market prices Monopolies Price discrimination Prices Pricing Production costs Quantity discounts Retail stores Studies Tariffs Welfare economics Wholesale Wholesale trade
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