In this paper, we extend the Chilean power generation pricing mechanism, with capacity and energy payments, to one where ancillary services (AS), as frequency regulation and voltage control, are explicitly recognized. ...

The large amount of information in electronic contracts hampers their establishment due to high complexity. An approach inspired in Software Product Line (PL) and based on feature modelling was proposed to make this process ...

Price is a decisive purchasing factor, both for people and for organizations, regardless of their socioeconomic status, purchasing power or size, so products and services might have the right, convenient, fair and suitable ...

This paper examines the determinants of perceived and actual knowledge of commission paid by contributors in the Chilean pension funds industry. Results show that price consciousness and brand credibility are positively ...

This paper analyzes the formation of prices in small companies of architecture and urbanism. The usual pricing methods for architectural services do not always match the reality of costs of each company, or they result in ...

This paper considers the pricing decision faced by a seller of bundles composed of a service and an associated product offered to customers on a subscription basis using a two-part tariff scheme. An optimal pricing policy ...

Beyond the different approaches to set regulated prices for the use of infrastructure, a key parameter to determine regulated tariffs is the concept of asset life and how it changes with changes in the economic and regulatory ...

Poor quality infrastructure that is highly subsidized is also typically associated with political interference. In such a context, implementing cost-recovery tariffs, necessary to improve infrastructure services, represents ...