Abstract
The present-day theory of peak-load pricing is concerned with the identification of the optimal pricing structure for a particular class of products: essentially, commodities the demand for which is episodic (variable by time of day, season, or whatever) and whose technical conditions of production make storage difficult and/or are discontinuous in terms of volume.
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Wiseman, J. (2018). Peak-Load Pricing. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1825
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