This may be on account of an inaccessible or inhospitable
health care system (in terms of cost or an absence of adequate social
welfare mechanisms), or because of racial, gender, sexual orientation
or other forms of discrimination."
Differential pricing is often confused with dynamic pricing.
Bob Gressens of Moai Technologies and Christopher Brousseau of
Accenture define dynamic pricing, in their paper "The Value
Propositions of Dynamic Pricing in Business-to-Business E-Commerce" as:
"... The buying and selling of goods and services in markets where
prices are free to move in response to supply and demand conditions."
This is usually done through auctions or requests for quotes or
tenders. Dynamic pricing is most often used in the liquidation of
surplus inventories and for e-sourcing.
Nor is differential pricing entirely identical with non-linear pricing.
In the real world, prices are rarely fixed. Some prices vary with usage
- "pay per view" in the cable TV industry, or "pay per print" in
scholarly online reference. Other prices combine a fixed element (e.g.,
a subscription fee) with a variable element (e.g., payment per
broadband usage). Volume discounts, sales, cross-selling, three for the
price of two - are all examples of non-linear pricing.
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