Efforts to Price Discriminate on the Part of a Price

question 61

Multiple Choice

Efforts to price discriminate on the part of a price searcher:

• A)are bad because they reduce total surplus.
• B)always maximize profits.
• C)are welfare increasing because they increase consumer's surplus.
• D)are less effective than other forms of pricing.

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