研討日期	2021年5月24日上午10:20~ 12:30
研討地點	國立臺灣大學710討論室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Wholesale price discrimination: Innovation incentives and upstream competition
作者 Authors of the paper	Uğur Akgün and Ioana Chioveanu
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. 2019; 28: 510–519.
主講人	丁虹仁
參加人員	Beny Trias Oktora、高國峯、Damiana Simanjuntak、Dong Van Chung、彭正浩、黃鴻、林燕淑、丁虹仁、蘇婷、施姵全、許至乙、陳彥勲、張瑞雲、梁文榮、王羿傑
摘要 Abstract of the paper	In intermediate good markets where there are alternative supply sources, wholesale price discrimination may enhance innovation incentives downstream. We consider a vertical chain where a dominant firm and a competitive fringe supply imperfect substitutes to duopoly retailers which carry both varieties. We show that a ban on price discrimination by the dominant supplier makes uniform pricing credible and reduces retailers’ incentives to decrease the cost of acquiring the competitively supplied variety, leading to higher upstream profits and lower downstream welfare. Our analysis complements existing results by identifying a novel channel through which wholesale price discrimination can improve dynamic market efficiency.