Duality in Nonlinear Pricing with Applications to Block Tariffs

Masahiro Watabe ()

No 32, Discussion Papers from Meisei University, School of Economics

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to establish a method for constructing a price schedule as an indirect mechanism from any incentive compatible and individually rational direct revelation mechanism in a quasi-linear context. The paper presents a necessary and sufficient condition for the optimality of posting a block tariff.

Keywords: nonlinear pricing; taxation principle; bunching; block tariffs; countervailing incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 D4 D82 D86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2015-05
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