Monopolist's Need to Prevent Arbitrage for Price Discrimination

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Question:

To succeed at price discrimination,the monopolist must prevent arbitrage.

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To succeed at price discrimination, a monopolist must prevent arbitrage, which is the practice of buying a product in one market at a lower price and selling it in another market at a higher price. If arbitrage is possible, it undermines the monopolist's ability to charge different prices to different consumers based on their willingness