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008 060726s2006 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2006619115
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
100 1 $aReiss, Peter C.
245 10 $aEvaluating welfare with nonlinear prices$h[electronic resource] /$cPeter C. Reiss, Matthew W. White.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2006.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 12370
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 7/26/2006.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"This paper examines how to evaluate consumer welfare when consumers face nonlinear prices. This problem arises in many settings, such as devising optimal pricing strategies for firms, assessing how price discrimination affects consumers, and evaluating the efficiency costs of many transfer programs in the public sector. We extend prior methods to accommodate a broad range of modern pricing practices, including menus of pricing plans. This analysis yields a simpler and more general technique for evaluating exact consumer surplus changes in settings where consumers face nonlinear prices. We illustrate our method using recent changes in mobile phone service plans"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aWhite, Matthew W.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 12370.
856 40 $uhttp://papers.nber.org/papers/w12370