A contract with K-class pricing divides a large set of goods or services into K classes and assigns a single price to any element of a class. Class pricing can be efficient when several different versions may be traded and it is costly to assign individual prices to all of them. It is more...

This series of discussions presents commentaries and a rejoinder on the economic perspectives on branding arising from Moorthy (Moorthy S. (2012) Can brand extension signal product quality? Marketing Sci. 31(5):756-770)

We combine the traditions of Coase and Adam Smith to look for the most efficient mechanisms in situations where buyers need sequences of human asset services, but only know their sequence one step ahead. The environment has two critical features: (a) multilateral matching allows gains from...