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>The idea of price discrimination is to transfer the consumers profit to producers
>Firstly there should not be any close substitutes available, because then people
might use them instead. So price discrimination can occur in monopoly
>Secondly the producer must keep the market separate, so that no resale of the
product is possible
>Thirdly two markets with different elasticity of demand. Price discrimination is
successful when costs do not rise when selling on different markets
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