Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Kenneth E. Train 
Author-Name:  Nate Toyama
Title:  Pareto Dominance Through Self-Selecting Tariffs: The Case of TOU Electricity Rates for Agricultural Customers
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  91-109
Volume:  Volume 10
Issue:  Number 1
Year:  1989
Abstract:  We estimate the impact of a voluntary time-of-use (TOU) rate option for electricity used in agricultural pumping. We find that offering the TOU tariff in addition to standard, non-TOU rates increases the profits of the electric utility and Pareto dominates the offering of standard rates alone. The analysis provides an example of the fact that Pareto improvements can be obtained by judiciously expanding the set of selfselecting tariffs offered by a public utility.
Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:1989v10-01-a08
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