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Record Nr.

UNINA9910364956303321

Autore

Miyawaki Koji

Titolo

Bayesian Analysis of Demand Under Block Rate Pricing / / by Koji Miyawaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

981-15-1857-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages)

Collana

JSS Research Series in Statistics, , 2364-0057

Disciplina

519.542

Soggetti

StatisticsĀ 

Financial engineering

Economic policy

Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Statistical Theory and Methods

Bayesian Inference

Financial Engineering

R & D/Technology Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Demand under Increasing Block Rate Pricing -- 3. Demand under Decreasing Block Rate Pricing -- 4. Extensions to Panel Data -- 5. Extensions to Areal Data -- 6. Block Normal Simulator.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the structural analysis of demand under block rate pricing, a type of nonlinear pricing used mainly in public utility services. In this price system, consumers are presented with several unit prices, which makes a naive analysis biased. However, the response to the price schedule is often of interest in economics and plays an important role in policymaking. To address this issue, the book adopts a structural approach, referred to as the discrete/continuous choice approach in the literature, to develop corresponding statistical models for analysis.The resulting models are extensions of the Tobit model, a well-known statistical model in econometrics, and their hierarchical structure fits well in Bayesian methodology. Thus, the book takes the Bayesian approach and develops the Markov chain Monte Carlo method to conduct statistical



inferences. The methodology derived is then applied to real-world datasets, microdata collected in Tokyo and the neighboring Chiba Prefecture, as a useful empirical analysis for prediction as well as policymaking.