La vente en primeur, instrument de discrimination intertemporelle en prix
Now widespread in many french wine market places, the so-called "en primeur" sales policy, that is selling part of the production before wine is bottled, appears to be a form of intertemporal price discrimination. Surprisingly enough, wine is actually sold at a lower price "en primeur" than later in bottle. To investigate this question, we consider a monopolist facing two types of consumers and show that he is better off selling at a first-period price lower than a second-period price, provided that high valuation consumers are rationed at the first period. Moreover, price discrimination with such rationing dominates the uniform pricing policy but also pure third-degreee price discrimination.
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2001
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Authors: | MAHENC, Philippe ; MOREAUX, Michel |
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Annales d'Economie et de Statistique. - École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Admnistration Économique (ENSAE). - 2001, 62, p. 193-208
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École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Admnistration Économique (ENSAE) |
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