THE OUTPUT EFFECTS OF SPATIAL PRICE DISCRIMINATION REVISITED*
扩展了空间价格歧视的早期发现,在特定市场条件下,歧视性定价比非歧视性工厂定价能带来更大产出,但这一结果依赖于需求函数的凸性程度。
ABSTRACT Some prior findings on spatial price discrimination are extended. Under certain spatially defined market conditions, discriminatory pricing is known to yield greater output than does nondiscriminatory f.o.b. mill pricing. However, this seemingly surprising result is based on the form of the basic demand function which is relatively less convex than a certain standard curve. The present paper makes this prior result more general by permitting the assumed basic demand to be relatively more convex.