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The Coase Problem: A Transformation of the Usual Utility Function

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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:49:28 -0600

Title: The Coase Problem: A Transformation of the Usual Utility Function
Author: Paulo Maçãs (University of Beira Interior)
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Keywords: Utility Function, disutility, durable goods, monopoly.
JEL: D11, D42, D91.
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Report-no: AS-76-000001

Abstract:

Given that demand for durable goods is not constant over time, we propose in this article a transformation of the utility function, which accounts for discrete time and for the effect of different levels of income in the utility of buying. With this, the original Coase paradox will collapse. The smaller the difference of the reservation prices between high income level and low income level consumers, the higher the probability of marginal cost pricing in the present.

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