作者：Choi, Dong Gu; Lim, Michael K.; Murali, Karthik; Thomas, Valerie M.
作者单位：Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH); Oregon State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We investigate the causes behind the underwhelming adoption of voluntary Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs in the residential electricity market. TOU tariffs are deployed by utilities to better match electricity generation capacity with market demand by giving consumers price incentives to reduce their consumption when electricity demand is at its peak. However, consumers in residential electricity markets are heterogeneous in their consumption preferences. Hence, utilities face a trade-off when deplo...
作者：Valletti, Tommaso; Wu, Jiahua
作者单位：Imperial College London
摘要：We consider a model where a monopolist can profile consumers in order to price discriminate among them, and consumers can take costly actions to protect their identities and make the profiling technology less effective. A novel aspect of the model consists in the profiling technology: the signal that the monopolist gets about a consumer's willingness-to-pay can be made more accurate either by having more consumers revealing their identities, or by spending larger amounts of money (e.g., on thi...
