Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks, Stephen Morris, The Limits of Price Discrimination, The American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 3 (MARCH 2015), pp. 921-957. Free online reading for over 10 million ...

So, outlawing price discrimination will make consumers pay more than they otherwise would—which may cause them to reduce spending on other goods—thus harming the producers of those goods.

Third degree price discrimination involves selling the same good or service to different segments of a market, based on willingness to pay. This is implemented using some identifiable consumer ...

Flexibility-based price discrimination allows companies to charge different people different prices for the same produce or service, based on how easily they can walk away.