There are three basic types of price discrimination, which economists (not so creatively) refer to as first-, second-, and third-degree price discrimination. First-degree or “perfect” price ...

Third, price discrimination in the market for drugs helps improve social welfare. In Part II we will show that the value of a drug (as measured by people’s willingness to pay for it) in ...

Vulnerable consumers are most at risk. Flexibility-based price discrimination allows companies to charge different people different prices for the same produce or service, based on how easily they ...

It might be argued that because hospitals initially bill all of their patients at their chargemaster prices, they do not engage in "price discrimination" the practice of charging different ...

In January, the FTC accused the beverage giant of price discrimination in favor of Walmart, potentially hurting smaller ...

for leave to file a third amended complaint against Juul Labs and HS Wholesale to add details to an existing price discrimination claim under the Robinson-Patman Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 13(a).

Several interesting results emerge. First, a credit refund policy facilitates intraconsumer price discrimination for a single type of consumers with stochastic valuation. Second, an optimal policy ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday dropped its case accusing PepsiCo of price discrimination that favored Walmart ...