研討日期

2010年05月08日10:10 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院社法26教室

討論題目

題目

作者

文獻出處

Welfare Implications of Third-degree Price Discrimination in Input Markets

Chin-Sheng Chen

and

Hong Hwang

Working paper

報告人

陳金盛

參加人員

黃鴻、梁文榮、林燕淑、彭正浩、高國峯、王佳琪、蔡明芳、張民忠、吳宜謙、周冰瑤、陳金盛、施姵全

摘要

This paper investigates the welfare effects of price discrimination in input markets with a model of competition between chain stores and local firms. In a benchmark where the chain store has integrated backward, we have found that, with a general cost structure in the final good industry, the input monopolist if adopts discriminatory pricing may charge a more efficient local firm a lower input price. Moreover, without changing the total output of the final good, the price discrimination resulting in higher consumption benefits of final good can enhance social welfare even if production efficiency is getting worse off at the same time. This consequence is also valid when the chain store is not integrated.