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Welfare and Non-linear Pricing in a Cournot Oligopoly

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A simple second degree price discrimination model involving nonlinear pricing of packets of a homogeneous product is shown to exhibit a welfare loss compared to the situation when nonlinear pricing is prohibited. The result holds for a Cournot oligopoly as well as monopoly. Further analysis considers the welfare loss from the market supplying "too large" a packet. Copyright 1991 by Royal Economic Society.

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  • Ireland, Norman J, 1991. "Welfare and Non-linear Pricing in a Cournot Oligopoly," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 101(407), pages 949-957, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecj:econjl:v:101:y:1991:i:407:p:949-57
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    1. Harrison, Mark & Kline, J. Jude, 2001. "Quantity competition with access fees," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 19(3-4), pages 345-373, March.
    2. Carlo Reggiani, 2008. "Oligopolistic Non-Linear Pricing and Size Economies," Discussion Papers 08/07, Department of Economics, University of York.
    3. Kauf, Teresa L., 1999. "Price discrimination and bargaining power in the U.S. vaccine market: Implications for childhood immunization policy," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 39(2), pages 249-265.
    4. Reggiani, Carlo, 2011. "Size (of the product) matters," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 63(4), pages 329-344, July.
    5. Solange Berstein, 2002. "Two-Part Tariff Competition With Switching Costs and Sales Agents," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 162, Central Bank of Chile.
    6. Cheung, Francis K. & Wang, Xinghe, 1995. "Output, price, and welfare under nonlinear pricing in an imperfectly competitive industry," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 47(4), pages 353-367, October.

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