Intertemporal Price Discrimination and Sales Strategy under Incomplete Information
为跨期价格变动提供理论解释，指出当企业仅掌握消费者保留价格的不完全信息时，跨期价格变动可能是企业试图区分消费者的结果，并证明若消费者时间贴现率高于生产者，这种价格歧视是卖家的最优策略。
This article examines intertemporal price variations to provide a theoretical explanation for them. When firms have only incomplete information about consumers' reservation prices for the commodity, we contend that some intertemporal price variations can result from attempts by firms to discriminate among consumers. We demonstrate that such price discrimination is the optimal policy for a seller if consumers have a higher time discount rate than producers.