【主讲】Adam Wong 副教授 (上海财经大学)
【主题】Menu Implementability and Practical Pricing Schemes
【时间】2011年9月27日 (周二) 15：30-17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼801室
【语言】英文
【摘要】We develop a general theory to characterize the set of direct mechanisms of nonlinear pricing that are implementable by practical pricing schemes. Here a practical pricing scheme is required to take the form of a menu of tariff options, where the set of admissible tariff options and the number of tariff options in the menu are pre-specified. Our results are applied to compare the maximum profits of three forms of pricing schemes: incremental discounts, all-units discounts, and quantity forcing. We found that, when the number of blocks is unrestricted, incremental discounts perform weakly the worst. However, if the performance of incremental discounts is not strictly worse when the number of blocks is unrestricted, then it performs the best when the number of blocks is restricted. It is because incremental discounts have the smallest "implementation power" and the largest "approximation power".
