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When promoters like scalpers

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  • Karp, L
  • Perloff, Jeffrey M

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If a monopoly supplies a perishable good, such as tickets to a performance, and is unable to price discriminate within a period, the monopoly may benefit from the potential entry of resellers. If the monopoly attempts to intertemporally price discriminate, the equilibrium in the game among buyers is indeterminate when the resellers are not allowed to enter, and the monopoly's problem is not well defined. An arbitrarily small amount of heterogeneity of information among the buyers leads to a unique equilibrium. We show how the potential entry of resellers alters this equilibrium.

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  • Karp, L & Perloff, Jeffrey M, 2005. "When promoters like scalpers," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt2wp8m52z, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
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