Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5058970 Economics Letters 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

•In infinite horizon, a credible durable-good monopolist chooses to discriminate.•The intertemporal price schedule is ruled by a differential equation.•The gain of discrimination depends on agents' relative patience.•The model encompasses Stokey (1979) and Landsberger and Meilijson (1985) as polar cases.

In infinite horizon, a credible durable-good monopolist may resort to intertemporal price discrimination. We provide an analytical characterization of his optimal price policy when consumers and the monopolist have different values for the trade because of distinct discount factors.

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