单选题
North Shore Excursions faces a downward sloping demand curve, hasthree
identifiable customer groups with the same elasticity of demand, and can prevent
resale of the product. Can North Shore profit from pricediscrimination and in
general, does a firm that engages in pricediscrimination achieve more gains from
customers with elastic or with inelastic demand?
Can North
Shore profit? Higher gain from customers
with:
①A. Yes
Elastic
demand
②B. Yes
Inelastic
demand
③C. No
Inelastic demand
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】For price discrimination to increase profits, the seller must have at least two identifiable customer groups that have different price elasticities of demand. The firm that uses price discrimination gains more from those customers with inelastic demand, as that will be the group paying the higher price.