This paper uses an equilibrium model of multipart nonlinear pricing to determine the magnitude of foregone profits due to the implementation of simple tariff options. I then use the available information from a cross-section of independent cellular telephone markets to study how these foregone...

A particular tariff option is said to be foggy when another option or a combination of other tariff options offered by the same firm is always less expensive regardless of the usage profile of any customer. Alternatively tariff fogginess may refer to the whole set of tariff options and it is...

Eugenio Miravete presented Profiting from Confusion: The Economics of Deception in Wellington June 2007