Micro Economics For Today
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Author: Tucker, Irvin B.
Publisher: Cengage,
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Which of the following is NOT a condition necessary for price discrimination?
a.The product cannot be resold to another customer.
b. the product must be a durable good
c. the seller must have some market power
d. The price elasticities of demand are different for each group of consumers.
Which of the following is not a requirement for a successful price discrimination strategy?
A. A firm must have market power
B. The firm must be able to prevent consumers who buy a product at a low price from reselling it to other consumers at a high price.
C. Some consumers must have greater willingness to pay for the product than other consumers, and the firm must be able to know what prices consumers are willing to pay
D. The good must be a very expensive good
The following are the necessary conditions which must be fulfilled for the implementation of price discrimination except for ______
a. there should be no arbitrage
b. the market must be divided into sub-markets with different elasticities of demand
c. the good or service in question should not be resaleable
d. the market must be divided into sub-markets with different elasticities of supply
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