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| Author: | Huang, M.-H. |
| Title: | Unequal pricing in the information economy: implications for consumer welfare |
| Journal: | Journal of Business Ethics
2005 : FEB II, VOL 56:4, p. 305-315 |
| Index terms: | consumer satisfaction welfare information equality inequality pricing prices asymmetric information network externalities discrimination |
| Freeterms: | consumer welfare |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper introduces an economic analysis of information good pricing and consumer welfare and examines the implications of price discrimination in the information economy. It claims that network externalities and asymmetric information enable a dominant marketer to adopt unequal pricing, extracting late adopters' surplus to compensate for the loss from early adopters. In the end, this kind of pricing may amount to the poor subsidizing the rich. Based on the analysis, implications for consumer welfare are discussed. |
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