Discuss the concept of price discrimination. What are the types
of price discrimination? Why do certain firms with market power use
price discrimination? Any real-life example of firms practicing
price discrimination.
Explain price discrimination strategy used in Coal or Spectrum
licenses and what is the benefit to the government when they sell
these licenses to corporate license buyers? (Elaborated answer
please)
Describe how a company can avoid arbitrage if it wants to pursue
price discrimination of the following products:
a. Beer for export; b. Vacuum cleaners – products at a discount
are supposed to be offered to some buyers; c. Bus drives; d.
Plastic that is an intermediate product with several
applications.
Discuss how firms can benefit from (1) related diversification
and also can benefit from (2) unrelated diversification. Discuss
some of the key concepts that can explain firm success or firm
failure from selecting one or the other diversification
strategy.
"Price Discrimination"
Does your company use price discrimination? Explain how the
practice works of direct and indirect price discrimination works
and estimate the effect of price discrimination on profits compared
to charging a flat price.
If your company doesn’t currently use price discrimination, are
there opportunities to use this pricing technique?
How would you design the scheme?