R. Preston McAfee‚ Price Discrimination‚ in 1 ISSUES IN COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY 465 (ABA Section of Antitrust Law 2008) Chapter 20 _________________________ PRICE DISCRIMINATION R. Preston McAfee* This chapter sets out the rationale for price discrimination and discusses the two major forms of price discrimination. It then considers the welfare effects and antitrust implications of price discrimination. 1. Introduction The Web site of computer manufacturer Dell asks prospective buyers
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Should a price be put on the goods and services provided by the world’s ecosystems? Every day there are parts of land that are being sold so builders can make buildings. Like new home construction‚ parking lots‚ malls‚ and even restaurants. But do people ever think of what we are taking away by building over certain parts of the land. What if certain species lived there and we took their habitat away. Or what about the swamps and the forest? A lot of things come with those places‚ and we use
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PRICE WARS: THE COST OF A COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR Introduction Price wars have racked industry after industry in recent years: from personal computers to mobile phones‚ from fast-food restaurants to airlines‚ from grocery retailing to computer software‚ from beers to frozen diet dinners‚ from automobile tires to disposable diapers‚ from detergents to underwear. All too often‚ there are no winners and few healthy survivors. Price wars indeed represent one of the extreme forms of competitive interplay
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The price ceiling is the maximum price a seller is allowed to charge for a product or service. An impact on society includes when the prices are so high of a product‚ that no one can buy it. A price floor is the lowest legal price a product or service can be sold at. When market price is at its lowest‚ it may still be too high for consumers to purchase products. Governments can intervene for any purpose‚ and they are the ones who set these price controls. Governments may intervene in the market
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Price Discrimination in Airline Industries Jennifer Solomon University of Maryland University College In many cases we run into industries that charge various customers different values for an identical good. These industries find that they intensify their revenues by using this method. Those industries that aid by this structure of moneymaking have participated in price discrimination. When you are boarding a flight I am sure you know that the passengers around you have not paid the same
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Consumer Price Index Consumer Price Index (CPI) in India comprises multiple series classified based on different economic groups. There are four series 1. CPI UNME (Urban Non-Manual Employee) 2. CPI AL (Agricultural Labourer) 3. CPI RL (Rural Labourer) 4. CPI IW (Industrial Worker) Central Statistical Organization is responsible for calculating and publishing the CPI UNME series‚ while Department of Labour is for others CPI indexes. All above CPI’s are calculated based on the base
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Functions of the Price Mechanism tutor2u™(www.tutor2u.net) is the leading free online resource for Economics‚ Business Studies‚ ICT and Politics. Don’t forget to visit our discussion boards too as part of your Economics revision. www.XtremePapers.net tutor2u™ Supporting Teachers: Inspiring Students Page 2 of 5 Functions of the Price Mechanism Revision Focus on the Functions of the Price Mechanism AS Syllabus Requirements: How Markets and Prices Allocate Resources Candidates should understand the
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a Hybrid strategy. COST LEADERSHIP IKEA’s strategy is based on selling high-quality‚ Swedish designed‚ self-assembly furniture products at low price. The IKEA business idea is: ‘We shall offer a wide range of well-designed‚ functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.’ IKEA targets price-conscious young couples and families who are willing and able to transport and assemble furniture kits. The low-price strategy‚ seeks to achieve
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Inaccuracies of the Consumer Price Index(CPI) Aman Aggarwal Sept. 28‚ 1996 The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the prices of a fixed market basket of some 300 consumer goods and services purchased by a "typical" urban consumer. The 1982-1984 period serves as the base period so analysts can compare other year’s changes with this base period. The composition of the market basket is fixed in the base period and is assumed not to change from one period to another. The reason for the assumption
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Government Intervention Government intervention sounds like a scary term for people in the free market. In fact it is‚ but a market without government intervention is very rare. As we learned earlier this year about the free market‚ price is determined by quantity of demand and supply‚ but with government intervention‚ prices may be controlled‚ quantity of supply may change because of subsidies‚ and demand may change if tax is added on products. Intervention may cause the market disordered‚ and also leads
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