Ramsey Pricing

Ramsey Pricing is a welfare-maximizing pricing rule for regulated (typically natural) monopolies that sets markups of prices over marginal costs so as to maximize total surplus subject to a given revenue (or profit) constraint, resulting in prices that are inversely proportional to the respective price elasticities of demand for the firm’s services.

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Citations

199

Authors

151

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Ramsey-boiteux Pricing

Parents

Pricing Theory

Children

Budget Balance ConstraintCost Recovery ConstraintDemand Elasticity MeasurementDistributional Equity In PricingInverse Elasticity RuleLinear PricingLump-sum TransfersMulti-product Ramsey PricingNetwork PricingOptimal Markup Structure

Publications

137

A Theory of Oligopoly

George J. Stigler · Journal of Political Economy · 1964 · 1.8K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Industrial Organization +9

Pricing and Matching with Frictions

Kenneth Burdett, Shouyong Shi, Randall Wright · Journal of Political Economy · 2001 · 531 citations

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +10

An Even Sterner Review: Introducing Relative Prices into the Discounting Debate

Thomas Sterner, U. Martin Persson · Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · 2008 · 477 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Climate Policy +14

A many-person Ramsey tax rule

Peter Diamond · Journal of Public Economics · 1975 · 420 citations

Public Affairs, Economics, Public Finance +12

The Access Pricing Problem: A Synthesis

Mark Armstrong, Chris Doyle, John Vickers · Journal of Industrial Economics · 1996 · 305 citations

Business, Business Economics, Economics +13

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Authors

199

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Sanjay K. Chugh
University of Maryland, College Park, United States
5 publications · 141 citations
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Richard S.J. Tol
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
4 publications · 263 citations
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Thomas Sterner
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
4 publications · 582 citations
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Robert A. Becker
Indiana University Bloomington, United States
4 publications · 106 citations
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William A. Pizer
Resources For The Future, United States
3 publications · 142 citations
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Institutions

151

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 10 publications · 389 citations
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Journal of Political Economy
JPE · 7 publications · 2.5K citations
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Journal of Economic Theory
JET · 6 publications · 377 citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 5 publications · 172 citations
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Economics Letters
5 publications · 78 citations
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