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....wider use of usage sensitive pricing. They were effective, but, as so often happens, not all the effects were positive. Some of the reductions were in the physical volume of the garbage, not its weight (the result of the Seattle stomp ) There was also an increase in illegal dumping and littering [FullertonK]. 12. Mail Postal systems are ancient, and there is a voluminous literature on their history, technology, politics, and economics. This literature all by itself illustrates the conflicting drives for price discrimination, 85 efficiency, and simplicity. that have shaped the evolution of ....

D. Fullerton and T. Kinnaman, Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag, Am. Econ. Rev., vol. 86, no. 4 (Sept. 1996), pp. 971-984.

....which, even for a system such as PMP, where almost all the work would be done at the edges of the network, would be costly to implement. Flat rates often have socially desirable effects, as well. In pricing of household garbage disposal, they decrease dumping of garbage, for example [15]. Flat rate pricing often allows service providers to collect more revenue. This is often true even when the user preferences mentioned above (which are hard to incorporate into conventional utility maximization arguments) are ignored. In general, flat rate (or subscription) pricing is likely to ....

Fullerton, D. and Kinnaman, T. Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag, Am. Econ. Rev. 86, no. 4 (Sept. 1996), 971-984.

....which, even for a system such as PMP, where almost all the work would be done at the edges of the network, would be costly to implement. Flat rates often have socially desirable effects, as well. In pricing of household garbage disposal, they decrease dumping of garbage, for example [FullertonK]. Flat rate pricing often allows service providers to collect more revenue. This is often true even when the user preferences mentioned above (which are hard to incorporate into conventional utility maximization arguments) are ignored. In general, flat rate (or subscription) pricing is likely to ....

D. Fullerton and T. Kinnaman, Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag, Am. Econ. Rev. 86, no. 4 (Sept. 1996), 971-984.

....which, even for a system such as PMP, where almost all the work would be done at the edges of the network, would be costly to implement. Flat rates often have socially desirable effects, as well. In pricing of household garbage disposal, they decrease dumping of garbage, for example [FullertonK]. Flat rate pricing often allows service providers to collect more revenue. This is often true even when the user preferences mentioned above (which are hard to incorporate into conventional utility maximization arguments) are ignored. In general, flat rate (or subscription) pricing is likely to ....

D. Fullerton and T. Kinnaman, Household responses to pricing garbage by the bag, Am. Econ. Rev. 86, no. 4 (Sept. 1996), 971-984.

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Fullerton, Don and Thomas C. Kinnaman. 1996. "Household Responses to Pricing Garbage by the Bag," American Economic Review, 86:4, 971--84.

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