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A sufficient condition for all-or-nothing information supply in price discrimination

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Marco LiCalzi (University of Venice, Italy)

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This paper provides a sufficient condition under which the optimal policy of a monopolistic seller who is considering the tradeoff between price discrimination and information disclosure is at one of two extremes: either buyers are given access to all the available information, or the seller makes no disclosure at all.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Game Theory and Information with number 0510005.

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Length: 15 pages
Date of creation: 12 Oct 2005
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Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpga:0510005

Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 15. Appeared in: Rendiconti per gli Studi Economici e Quantitativi, 2005, 163–177.
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Keywords: Comparative statics; supermodular functions; lattice programming.;

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C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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  5. Takemi Yanagimoto & Masashi Okamoto, 1969. "Partial orderings of permutations and monotonicity of a rank correlation statistic," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 489-506, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Juan José Ganuza & José S. Penalva, 2006. "On Information and Competition in Private Value Auctions," Economics Working Papers 937, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Jul 2006. [Downloadable!]
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