Answered step by step
Verified Expert Solution
Link Copied!

Question

1 Approved Answer

2) Years ago (this may still be true) the Metropolitan Opera sold last-minute tickets to anyone with a student ID. At the time a friend,

image text in transcribed
2) Years ago (this may still be true) the Metropolitan Opera sold \"last-minute\" tickets to anyone with a student ID. At the time a friend, a young law professor, told me he had discovered that all you needed to show to buy such a ticket was a Columbia ID. It did not matter if your appearance suggested you were not a student~they did not check! He asked: how can the Met waste money like that? For trther background, note that the Met is a very large opera house (it may be the biggest in the world). Second, the Met puts the \"grand\" in grand opera. Here are two examples you can peer at to get a sense: Aida (Verdi): httpsy'fwwwyoutube. comfwatch'?v=HgNa9CpaS L8 La Boheme (Puccini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWyFZJBth a) We have mentioned that sellers will have a greater incentive to price discriminate when: i) there is high variability in buyers' willingness to pay or elasticity, and ii) the seller has high xed costs and low marginal costs. Does the above background suggest that holds for the Met? Discuss briey. b) Given that, would you say the Met is crazy to be lax on the ID policy? What might its strategy be? c) CT argue that a pharmaceutical company is more likely to spend $100 million to develop a vaccine when it knows it can charge different prices in different countries. What does that have to do with high xed and low marginal costs? d) How is the Met like a pharmaceutical company

Step by Step Solution

There are 3 Steps involved in it

Step: 1

blur-text-image

Get Instant Access to Expert-Tailored Solutions

See step-by-step solutions with expert insights and AI powered tools for academic success

Step: 2

blur-text-image

Step: 3

blur-text-image

Ace Your Homework with AI

Get the answers you need in no time with our AI-driven, step-by-step assistance

Get Started

Recommended Textbook for

The Economic Development Of Latin America Since Independence

Authors: Luis Bértola, Luis Bértola

1st Edition

0191638242, 9780191638244

More Books

Students also viewed these Economics questions

Question

why Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework is important

Answered: 1 week ago

Question

Do not pay him, wait until I come

Answered: 1 week ago

Question

Do not get married, wait until I come, etc.

Answered: 1 week ago

Question

Do not come to the conclusion too quickly

Answered: 1 week ago