caa a22 4500 469075996 CHVBK 20180323132935.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00157160 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00157160 Ex post vs. ex ante pricing: Optional calling plans and tapered tariffs [Elektronische Daten] [Karen Clay, David Sibley, Padmanabhan Srinagesh] We study optimal nonuniform pricing in a setting where a customer's demand at the start of a billing period contains a random variable whose realization becomes known by the end of the billing period. In this context, an optional calling plan is a tariff which the consumer must select based on his/her expectations about the random variable, whereas, under a tapered tariff, the consumer's choice of usage charge is made after he/she knows the realization of the random variable. We show that for low to moderate levels of uncertainty about the random variable entering the demand function, the optional calling plan approach to nonuniform pricing yields higher expected profit than does the tapered tariff approach, given risk-neutral consumers. We illustrate this finding with a case study and argue that it is consistent with the historical evolution of tariffs in the interexchange telecommunications market. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Clay Karen Department of Economics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA aut Sibley David Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX aut Srinagesh Padmanabhan Bell Communications Research, LCC 3B234, 290 West Mount Pleasant Avenue, 07039, Livingston, NJ aut Journal of Regulatory Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/2(1992-06-01), 115-138 0922-680X 4:2<115 1992 4 11149 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00157160 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00157160 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clay Karen Department of Economics, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sibley David Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, Austin, TX aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Srinagesh Padmanabhan Bell Communications Research, LCC 3B234, 290 West Mount Pleasant Avenue, 07039, Livingston, NJ aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Regulatory Economics Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/2(1992-06-01), 115-138 0922-680X 4:2<115 1992 4 11149 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer