Do Consumers Distinguish Fixed Cost from Variable Cost? “Schmeduling” in Two-Part Tariffs in Energy

Koichiro Ito; Shuang Zhang (2025) · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Published

October 10, 2026

import sys
from pathlib import Path

ROOT = next(
    p for p in [Path.cwd(), *Path.cwd().parents]
    if (p / "scripts/tranche50_report.py").exists()
)
sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT / "scripts"))
from tranche50_report import report
report("aeraej-26", tranche="tranche100")

Koichiro Ito; Shuang Zhang (2025). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Table 2.

Template assessment

The deposited study code reads rawdata1/rawdata2 and analysisdata1/analysisdata2, none of which ship in the ZIP. Only the ancillary pollution datasets and software-example data are present.

No comparison point or homogeneity-test decision is assigned to this paper.