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Result 2: Trigger Prices Are Linked to the Social-demographic Factors

We can also comment about the resulting trigger prices for the 14 service areas. First, the cooperative response prices which can be derived from the computed cooperative response quantities are always greater than the trigger prices. The trigger prices themselves are related to the y intercept that was computed for each service area using the Perl model. For service area A, we see the y intercept is 4.72991 from Table 3. For service area B, a y intercept of 6.32969 was computed, and for service area C, a y intercept of 5.41145 was computed. In Table 4, we see that the trigger price for service area C is greater than the trigger price for service area A, and that the trigger price for service area B is the largest of the three. The relationship holds in every case, that the trigger price is higher in areas that would support greater demand for access. In Table 5 we list the expected market prices that were computed using the quantities in Table 4 and the Equation 6 from Section 4.


Judith Molka-Danielsen
Wed Sep 10 14:34:53 CEST 1997