Household Demand, Network Externality Effects and Intertemporal Price Discrimination

This paper examines the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination when network externality effects are present in the consumption of a durable good. We conduct our study in two settings. In a model with two household types, utilities are dependent on the cumulative proportion of households th...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: KOH, Winston T. H.
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اللغة:English
منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/824
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1823/viewcontent/IPD_network.pdf
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المؤسسة: Singapore Management University
اللغة: English
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الملخص:This paper examines the optimality of intertemporal price discrimination when network externality effects are present in the consumption of a durable good. We conduct our study in two settings. In a model with two household types, utilities are dependent on the cumulative proportion of households that have purchased the durable good. Next, in a model with a continuum of household types, we extend the analysis to the case where households consume both a durable good and a stream of non-durable goods. We show that in both settings, the presence of network externalities facilitates a sales strategy with intertemporal price discrimination.