Autori
Philips, Louis
Pettini, Anna

Titolo
A redistributive approach to price and quality discrimination
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1998 - Fascicolo: 7 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 20

This paper examines the properties of quality selection when the standard price discrimination rule is modified for redistributive purposes. A public firm is assumed to sell a private good of different qualities to people with homogeneous tastes but different incomes, in a mixed duopoly or as a monopolist: optimal marginal conditions for quality selection are compared for the different cases. We derive a generalised form of a redistributive price discrimination rule for a public monopoly. Welfare consequences and the sensibility of redistributive objectives hi a partial equilibrium context are also discussed




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