BackBrowsing Documentos de Trabajo e Informes Técnicos by Author "Aguirre, Iñaki"
Now showing items 1-9 of 9
-
Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki
; Beitia Ruiz de Mendarozqueta, María Aranzazu (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-12)
In this paper we propose a simple method of characterizing countervailing incentives in adverse selection problems. The key element in our characterization consists of analyzing properties of the full information problem. ... -
Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2009-12)
In this paper, we show that in order for third-degree price discrimination to increase total output, the demands of the strong markets should be, as conjectured by Robinson (1933), more concave than the demands of the weak ... -
Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (2009-08)
This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and oputput when all markets are served. Sufficient conditions -involving straightforward comparisons of ... -
Monopoly price discrimination with constant elasticity demand
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Cowan, Simon George (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-11)
This paper presents new results on the welfare e¤ects of third-degree price discrimination under constant elasticity demand. We show that when both the share of the strong market under uniform pricing and the elasticity ... -
Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2011-11)
The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ... -
On the economics of the "meeting competition defense" under the Robinson-Patman Act
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-02-19)
In this paper we analyze the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination when competitive pressure varies across markets. In particular, we study the economic aspects of the Robinson-Patman Act associated with the ... -
On the strategic choice of spatial price policy: the role of the pricing game rules
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Martín Arroyuelos, Ana María (2001-02)
In this paper, whe show that the strategic choice of spatial price policy under duopoly crucially depends on the rules of price competition. Thisse and Vives (1988) show that spatial price discrimination is a dominant ... -
Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki; Espinosa Alejos, María Paz (2003-03)
We analyze the consequences of consumers behavior concerning personal arbitrage in a spatial discrimination context where firms know the consumers distribution but cannot distinguish them by location. The firms' equilibrium ... -
Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian
Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki (2011-10)
Based on a pioneering work by Ippolito (1980) we construct a simple model wich allows the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination to be well understood and explained. The decomposition of the change in welfare ...