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Price Discrimination and Price Dispersion in the Argentine Gasoline Market

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This paper analyses the extent of gasoline price differences among provinces in Argentina during the period 1998-2000, and tries to impute those differences to price discrimination and non-price discrimination causes. It also tries to measure the effects of those differences on quantities and welfare. We conclude that price discrimination exists but it is relatively irrelevant to explain most geographic price differences. We also find that, in this case, eliminating price discrimination would lead to ambiguous changes in welfare, but moving to a uniform price scheme (i.e., preventing all geographic price differences) will almost certainly reduce total surplus.

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  • German Coloma, 2003. "Price Discrimination and Price Dispersion in the Argentine Gasoline Market," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 169-178.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ijecbs:v:10:y:2003:i:2:p:169-178
    DOI: 10.1080/13571510305068
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    1. Chin-Sheng Chen, 2017. "Price Discrimination in Input Markets and Quality Differentiation," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 50(3), pages 367-388, May.
    2. Konstantinos Charistos & Christos Constantatos & Ioannis N. Pinopoulos, 2020. "Downstream horizontal mergers and wholesale price discrimination," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 40(4), pages 3124-3130.
    3. Matsui, Kenji, 2018. "When and what wholesale and retail prices should be set in multi-channel supply chains?," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 267(2), pages 540-554.
    4. Chin-Sheng Chen & Hong Hwang, 2014. "Spatial Price Discrimination in Input Markets with an Endogenous Market Boundary," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 45(2), pages 139-152, September.

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