Suppose Seven Individuals Enjoy Going To The Comedy Club

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Suppose seven individuals enjoy going to the comedy club. Their demand is as follows: Allison $20, Beatrice $18, Cally $16, David $14, Ezekiel $12, Francesca $10, Gertrude $8. The comedy club has a monopoly and a marginal cost of $7 per entrant. If the club can perfectly price-discriminate, charging each customer their maximum willingness to pay, how many tickets will it sell?

The club will sell a ticket to every individual whose willingness to pay exceeds or equals the marginal cost of $7. All seven individuals have willingness to pay above $7, so the club would sell tickets to all seven persons under perfect price discrimination.

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The scenario involves a monopoly comedy club considering how many tickets it would sell if it could perfectly price discriminate. Perfect price discrimination allows the seller to charge each customer their maximum willingness to pay, thereby extracting the entire consumer surplus.

In this case, the individual demands are: Allison ($20), Beatrice ($18), Cally ($16), David ($14), Ezekiel ($12), Francesca ($10), and Gertrude ($8). Since the club’s marginal cost is $7, it will sell tickets to all individuals with willingness to pay at or above this cost. All seven individuals have willingness to pay greater than or equal to $7, so the club would sell tickets to all seven individuals.

By selling to all seven, the total number of tickets sold is seven. Price discrimination maximizes the club’s profit because it captures the maximum willingness to pay from each customer, thus eliminating consumer surplus and converting it into producer surplus. The total revenue in this scenario would be the sum of each individual’s willingness to pay, totaling $98 ($20 + $18 + $16 + $14 + $12 + $10 + $8).

This strategy illustrates how monopolies can maximize profits by perfectly price discriminating, capturing the entire area under the demand curve above marginal cost. In real-world contexts, perfect price discrimination is challenging to implement due to informational and practical constraints, but it remains a critical theoretical concept for understanding monopoly behavior and consumer surplus extraction.

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