Does Price Volatility Information Affect Consumer Choice?

dc.creator	Shcherbakova, Anastasia
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-22T22:42:31Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-22T22:42:31Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/195937
dc.description	Most electricity consumers in the United States purchase electricity through a fixed-rate plan. This leads to inefficiencies and overuse because there are no monetary incentives for consumers to limit usage during peak times when electricity generation is very expensive. The reliance on fixed-rate plans makes electricity generation inefficient and has negative environmental implications. Neither utilities nor policy makers have been able to figure out how to successfully introduce dynamic-rate pricing plans on a large scale. Our research suggests ways electric utilities can help consumers make more efficient choices.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 13;Issue 1
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	electricity pricing	en
dc.subject	efficiency	en
dc.title	Does Price Volatility Information Affect Consumer Choice?	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.contributor.sponsor	Bush School of Government and Public Service
local.department	Other	en

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