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Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki
; Beitia Ruiz de Mendarozqueta, María Aranzazu (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-12)
In this paper we propose a simple method of characterizing countervailing incentives in adverse selection problems. The key element in our characterization consists of analyzing properties of the full information problem. ... -
Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2009-12)
In this paper, we show that in order for third-degree price discrimination to increase total output, the demands of the strong markets should be, as conjectured by Robinson (1933), more concave than the demands of the weak ... -
Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (2009-08)
This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and oputput when all markets are served. Sufficient conditions -involving straightforward comparisons of ... -
Monopoly price discrimination with constant elasticity demand
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon George (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-11)
This paper presents new results on the welfare e¤ects of third-degree price discrimination under constant elasticity demand. We show that when both the share of the strong market under uniform pricing and the elasticity ... -
Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2011-11)
The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ... -
On the economics of the "meeting competition defense" under the Robinson-Patman Act
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-02-19)
In this paper we analyze the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination when competitive pressure varies across markets. In particular, we study the economic aspects of the Robinson-Patman Act associated with the ... -
Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2011-10)
Based on a pioneering work by Ippolito (1980) we construct a simple model wich allows the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination to be well understood and explained. The decomposition of the change in welfare ...