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Third-degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Congestion Externality

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  • Achim I. Czerny

    (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  • Anming Zhang

    (The University of British Columbia, Canada)

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This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality when all markets are served. The model features the business-passenger and leisure-passenger markets where business passengers exhibit a higher time valuation, and a less price-elastic demand, than leisure passengers. Our main result is the identification of the time-valuation effect of price discrimination, which can work in the opposite direction as the well-known output effect on welfare. This time-valuation effect clearly explains why discriminating prices can improve welfare even when this is associated with a reduction in aggregate output.

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  • Achim I. Czerny & Anming Zhang, 2014. "Third-degree Price Discrimination in the Presence of Congestion Externality," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 14-140/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
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    1. Czerny, Achim I. & Zhang, Anming, 2014. "Airport congestion pricing when airlines price discriminate," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 77-89.
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    4. Achim I. Czerny & Vincent A.C. van den Berg & Erik T. Verhoef, 2015. "Complementary Alliances with Endogenous Fleets and Load Factors," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 15-134/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.

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    Keywords

    Price discrimination; congestion; time valuation; monopoly; airline;
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    JEL classification:

    • D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
    • L93 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Air Transportation

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