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Thematic Session: Electricity Pricing, Consumer Behavior, and Distributional Impacts (Streaming) Location: B008 Session Chair: Jesse Buchsbaum, Resources for the Future | |
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Prepayment, Salience, and Welfare 1: Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland; 2: Wageningen University and Research; 3: Australian National University Prepayment can enhance salience, making customers more price-responsive when paying before consumption rather than after. Exploiting Indonesia's nationwide conversion to prepaid electricity metering alongside tariff increases, we find prepaid users exhibit price elasticities two to four times larger than postpaid users. This differential responsiveness is consistent with increased price awareness from upfront payment. Our choice experiment reveals a positive willingness-to-pay for prepaid metering, suggesting consumer welfare gains. We estimate that prepaid metering reduces deadweight loss by 1.5% and CO2 emissions by nearly 6%. Thus, prepayment could support climate policy goals by promoting energy conservation without imposing significant burdens on consumers. | |