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One of the main reasons for poor state of education in developing countries is an inability to meet the heterogeneous learning needs of a large student population with constrained educational resources. We provide experimental evidence that computer-generated personalized homework can...
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Customers often evaluate products at brick-and-mortar stores to identify their “best fit” product but buy it for a lower price at a competing online retailer. This free-riding behavior by customers is referred to as “showrooming” and we show that this is detrimental to the profits of the...
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Public 'Beta' launches have become a preferred route of entry into themarkets for new software products and web site based services. Whilebeta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests weredone by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testingso attractive to...
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Public “Beta” launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760643
Public "Beta" launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213792
In this paper, we extend the understanding of versioning strategy of an information goods monopolist and provide new insights on when versioning is optimal. To do so, we derive the optimal product line or versions of an information good and the corresponding prices. By relaxing common...
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The introduction of product upgrades in a competitive environment is commonly observed in the software industry. When introducing a new product, a software vendor may employ behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) by offering a discount over its market price to entice existing customers of...
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The ongoing digitization of multiple industries has drastically reduced the half-life of skills and capabilities acquired by knowledge workers through formal education. Thus, firms are forced to make significant ongoing investments in training their employees to remain competitive. Existing...
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Classic economic theory asserts that full information transparency entails information symmetry and, thus, market efficiency in trading. We test if this theory still holds in a blockchain-enabled marketplace where full information transparency is accomplished via blockchain. We leverage the data...
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