Optimal pricing of court services
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Rickman, N and Tzavara, D (2005) Optimal pricing of court services European Journal of Law and Economics, 20 (1). 31 - 41. ISSN 0929-1261
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10657-005-1013-1
Abstract
Litigants are generally charged for using court services. The charges involved are usually set to achieve a combination of efficiency, equity and funding goals. This paper presents a simple model, based on regulated monopoly pricing, to address the question of how these charges should be set. We find that fixed fees generally form part of the optimal charging package, despite concerns about their regressive nature. Per-unit fees will also be used though they may be set below cost; in this case, a trade-off emerges and the fixed fee is used to achieve funding goals. Our model is a useful one for developing extensions from the nonlinear pricing literature. © 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The original publication is available at: http://www.springerlink.com |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Economics and Law > Economics |
| ID Code: | 430862 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic Elements |
| Deposited On: | 22 Jun 2012 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2013 16:03 |
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