Uncertain Consumer Tastes and Two-Part Tariff

Hao Wang
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Hao Wang: China Center for Economic Research

Microeconomics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: A service provider sells to homogenous risk-averse consumers through a two-part tariff. The consumers have uncertain tastes toward the service. They subscribe the service before the uncertainty resolves. In contrast with the common view that a monpolist's optimal two-part tariff for homogeneous consumers should entail a usuage rate equalising to the firm's marginal production cost, I show that when consumers have uncertain tastes, the service provider's optimal two-part tariff entails a usuage rate that is greater than the marginal cost.

Keywords: uncertain taste; risk aversion; service pricing; two-part tariff (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-01
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