2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Asymmetric Information and Third-Degree Price Discrtimination: Welfare Analysis from Theoretical and Empirical Standpoints
| Project/Area Number |
15K03425
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Economic policy
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
|
| Keywords | 価格差別 / 性差 / 起業 / 価格転嫁 / 厚生分析 |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we pursue a theoretical investigation of the effects on third-degree price discrimination on social welfare as well as an empirical investigation of the gender gap in start-up activities. First, we characterize welfare aspects of oligopolistic third-degree price discrimination under non-linear demands. The main results are that such basic concepts as price elasticities, the index of the degree of competition, and the value of price pass-through play an important role in the determination of social welfare. Second, we focus on two different start-up modes: independent entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, and find that the gender differences in the employment-related variables rather than in the family-related variables are important in the determination of the gender gap in start-up activities.
|
| Free Research Field |
産業組織
|
