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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"nonlinear pricing"”.
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Deductible Insurance and Nonlinear Pricing
In this paper the problem of pricing deductible insurance is studied in the case where individuals are allowed to self-select their level of deductibility. The model uses a continuous state system allowing for both full and partial losses with a slight modification to include positive probabilities …
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Family Plans: Market Segmentation with Nonlinear Pricing
<p>In the telecommunications market, firms often give consumers the option of purchasing an individual plan or a family plan. An individual plan gives a certain allowance of usage (e.g., minutes, data) for a single consumer, whereas a family plan allows multiple consumers to share a specific level …
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Linear and Nonlinear Pricing for Network Games With Complete and Incomplete Information
This dissertation addresses optimal linear and nonlinear pricing policy design for a monopolistic network service provider with various types of public and private information on user types. In the communication network pricing literature, it is the linear pricing schemes that have been largely …
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Irrigation Water Pricing: Technology Adoption, Welfare, and Political Economy
… deals with the political economy of water pricing and its implications on the adoption of modern irrigation technology in the presence of asymmetric information and lobbies. The main results are that under the two-part tariff or the nonlinear pricing, farmers have an incentive to organize …
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Three Essays on Applied Economics
This dissertation is centered on applying `nonlinearity' across various fields, a decision informed by the understanding that linear models frequently fail to capture the full extent of real-world complexities. This approach is driven by the distinct insights that nonlinearity offers, insights …
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Stochastic Dynamic Optimization and Games in Operations Management
… the analysis of comparative dynamics.</p><p>A pricing schedule is nonlinear if the resulting revenue is not a linear function of quantity. The third essay presents a dynamic nonlinear pricing model with stochastic demand. We start with a two-segment model for illustrative purposes and derive …
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Essays on the Economics of Information
… complete contracts. Applying our results to a nonlinear pricing model, we study how changes in consumer demand, production costs, and informational asymmetries affect the optimally coarse set of quality options. This chapter is the result of joint work with Joel P. Flynn and Karthik A. Sastry. …
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Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics and Mechanism Design
… considerable. In the sixth and final chapter, "Nonlinear Pricing with Under-Utilization: A Theory of Multi-Part Tariffs" (coauthored with Roberto Corrao and Karthik A. Sastry), we study the nonlinear pricing of goods whose usage generates revenue for the seller and of which buyers can freely …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… looking behavior in their response to the nonlinear pricing common in health insurance contracts. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the calendar year face the same initial price of medical care but a higher …
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The Price is Right: Examining Demand for Medical Care in the Presence of Deductibles
… This study explicitly incorporates this nonlinearity by using the more appropriate concept of expected end-of-year price and applying it to the analysis of the demand for medical care by a sample of insured pregnant women who face different end-of-year prices depending on the timing of …