Seeking theta's desperately: Estimating the distribution of consumers under increasing block rates
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- dc.contributor.author Delicado, Pedro
- dc.contributor.author Castro, Fidel
- dc.contributor.author Da Rocha, Jose M.
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-25T09:26:46Z
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- dc.date.issued 1997-12-01
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-25T09:17:19Z
- dc.description.abstract This paper shows that the distribution of observed consumption is not a good proxy for the distribution of heterogeneous consumers when the current tariff is an increasing block tariff. We use a two step method to recover the "true" distribution of consumers. First, we estimate the demand function induced by the current tariff. Second, using the demand system, we specify the distribution of consumers as a function of observed consumption to recover the true distribution. Finally, we design a new two-part tariff which allows us to evaluate the equity of the existence of an increasing block tariff.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=250
- dc.identifier.citation Journal of Regulatory Economics, 22 (1), pp. 29-58, 2002
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/436
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 250
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- dc.subject.keyword heterogeneous demand
- dc.subject.keyword nonlinear pricing
- dc.subject.keyword Microeconomics
- dc.title Seeking theta's desperately: Estimating the distribution of consumers under increasing block rates
- dc.title.alternative Desperately seeking theta's: Estimating the distribution of consumers under increasing block rates
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