I show that small differences in quality and production costs between durables and non-durables in a product line allow a durable goods monopolist to intertemporally price discriminate even with continuous trading. In particular, a monopolist would want to both sell and rent out a durable to achieve price discrimination. This incentive to price discriminate simultaneously creates inefficient delay in the sale of the durable good, a finite trading period and long run efficiency of the market. The Cease conjecture fails because the non-durable good acts as an outside option that guarantees a minimum profit in the market for durables.
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Jiang, Baojun
Sudhir, K.
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Yale Univ, Yale Sch Management, 135 Prospect St,POB 208200, New Haven, CT 06520 USAWashington Univ, Olin Business Sch, One Brookings Dr,Campus Box 1156, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
Sudhir, K.
Zou, Tianxin
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