An Adverse Model for Price Discrimination in the Case of Monopoly

We consider a Principal-Agent model with the Principal being a seller who does not know perfectly how much the buyer (the Agent) is willing to pay for the good. The buyer-s preferences are hence his private information. The model corresponds to the nonlinear pricing problem of Maskin and Riley. We assume there are three types of Agents. The model is solved using “informational rents" as variables. In the last section we present the main characteristics of the optimal contracts in asymmetric information and some possible extensions of the model.

Authors:

• Daniela Elena Marinescu
• Ioana Manafi
• Dumitru Marin

Keywords:

• Adverse selection
• asymmetric information
• informational rent
• nonlinear pricing
• optimal contract

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