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Spatial pricing, optimal location and social welfare with consumer arbitrage
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive comparison of the optimal location, output and welfare of spatial discriminatory pricing by integrating consumer arbitrage into the Hwang and Mai (Am Econ Rev 80:567–575, 1990) model. It shows that the presence of arbitrage creates a significant influence on a firm’s locational choice and thus generates different welfare implications. When the discrepancy between the two markets is small, the optimal location and the resulting social welfare level under discriminatory pricing and mill pricing policies remain the same; however, when the discrepancy between the two markets is large, the two pricing policies yield different optimal locations which make the welfare under discriminatory pricing higher than that under mill pricing, hence reversing the support for anti-trust legislation.
Spatial pricing, optimal location and social welfare with consumer arbitrage
Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive comparison of the optimal location, output and welfare of spatial discriminatory pricing by integrating consumer arbitrage into the Hwang and Mai (Am Econ Rev 80:567–575, 1990) model. It shows that the presence of arbitrage creates a significant influence on a firm’s locational choice and thus generates different welfare implications. When the discrepancy between the two markets is small, the optimal location and the resulting social welfare level under discriminatory pricing and mill pricing policies remain the same; however, when the discrepancy between the two markets is large, the two pricing policies yield different optimal locations which make the welfare under discriminatory pricing higher than that under mill pricing, hence reversing the support for anti-trust legislation.
Spatial pricing, optimal location and social welfare with consumer arbitrage
Hwang, Hong (author) / Lin, Yan-Shu (author) / Mai, Chao-Cheng (author)
2007
Article (Journal)
English
Spatial pricing, optimal location and social welfare with consumer arbitrage
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