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DOI10.3386/w18533
来源IDWorking Paper 18533
Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing
Koichiro Ito
发表日期2012-11-09
出版年2012
语种英语
摘要Nonlinear pricing and taxation complicate economic decisions by creating multiple marginal prices for the same good. This paper provides a framework to uncover consumers' perceived price of nonlinear price schedules. I exploit price variation at spatial discontinuities in electricity service areas, where households in the same city experience substantially different nonlinear pricing. Using household-level panel data from administrative records, I find strong evidence that consumers respond to average price rather than marginal or expected marginal price. This sub-optimizing behavior makes nonlinear pricing unsuccessful in achieving its policy goal of energy conservation and critically changes the welfare implications of nonlinear pricing.
主题Industrial Organization ; Market Structure and Firm Performance ; Regulatory Economics ; Industry Studies ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w18533
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Koichiro Ito. Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing. 2012.
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