Examples of unit tax superiority for a price-discriminating monopolist |
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Authors: | Francisco Galera José Luis Álvarez Isabel Rodríguez-Tejedo |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Economics,Universidad de Navarra,Pamplona,Spain |
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Abstract: | This paper compares the welfare effects of per-unit and ad valorem taxes in four pervasive price discrimination schemes: quantity discounts, two-part tariffs, bundling, and package size price discrimination. The paper shows by example that per-unit taxes may welfare dominate ad valorem tariffs in a market with a monopoly that maximizes profits by engaging in second-degree price discrimination. |
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