Which case below best represents a case of price discrimination?   An insurance company offers discounts to safe drivers.  A major airline sells tickets to senior citizens at lower prices than to other passengers.  A professional baseball team pays two players with identical batting averages different salaries.   A utility company charges less for electricity used during "off-peak" hours, when it does not have to operate its less-efficient generating plants.

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Q: Which of the following is not a requirement for a successful price discrimination strategy?  A. A…

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A: # The availability of more number of substitute for a good means that the good has many more other…

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A: 2. Calculate the total revenue and total cost.Since the profit-maximizing quantity is 0, the total…

Q: Which of the following is FALSE with regards to two-part tariffs? You can select more than one. An…

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Q: Price discrimination is one of the features of which type of the market economy?

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Q: The ABC movie theater has 300 seats. In a typical month, 25 percent of the seats are sold. The price…

A: Elasticity of demand depicts how much consumer responds with the change in the price level.

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Q: Is pink tax considered as a price discrimination?  Debate whether it is or not.

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Q: Suppose you can separate consumers into two groups: Group 1 has a price elasticity of demand = -3…

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Q: When a firm sells the same product to different consumers and charges the consumers different…

A: A firm may sell the same product but charge different prices to different consumers for the same…

Q: Price discrimination does not create deadweight loss, because O surplus is transferred from the…

A: The monopoly market would be a single seller and many buyers in the market. The monopoly market…

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A: 1st -degree PD also known as  perfect PD which shows a seller charging each customer the maximum P…

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Q: List two things that first-order price discrimination and two-part tariff have in common.

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A: The answer is 3. Price discrimination.

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Q: A local video store estimates its customer's inverse demand per year is P = 30 - 4Q, and it knows…

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Price Discrimination

Price discrimination or differential pricing is based on the principle that the seller will charge the buyer a price based on the buyer’s ability and willingness to pay for the product rather than applying uniform pricing for all.