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Bundling Models in Retail Banking Sector /in Slovakia/

Fusek, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

The current overview of bundling theory is combined with author's experiences of its practical application into several step-by-step guidelines. These models consist of the whole process of the construction and performance appraisal of product bundles in retail banking sector and show how the...

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Price Deflators for High Technology Goods and the New Buyer Problem

Aizcorbe, Ana - EconWPA - 2005

Some items in a household’s market basket, notably durable goods, are purchased only occasionally. In contrast, standard price measures implicitly assume that consumers purchase some amount of every available good in every period. The occasional purchase of an existing good by a new buyer...

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On the Strategic Advantage of Negatively Interdependent Preferences

Kockesen, Levent; Ok, Efe A.; Sethi, Rajiv - EconWPA - 1997

We study certain classes of supermodular and submodular games which are symmetric with respect to material payoffs but in which not all players seek to maximize their material payoffs. Specifically, a subset of players have negatively interdependent preferences and care not only about their own...

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Interdependent Preference Formation

Kockesen, Levent; Ok, Efe A.; Sethi, Rajiv - EconWPA - 1997

A standard assumption in the economic approach to individual decision making is that people have independent preferences, that is, they care only about their absolute (material) payoffs. We study equilibria of the classic common pool resource extraction and public good games when some of the...

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The Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital

Ritson, Mark; Zbaracki, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this … enhance the effectiveness of the pricing processes within their firms. We discovered at least three distinct types of … investments that managers at these firms made to price more effectively, which we term as the three capitals of pricing - human …

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Advertising, Pricing & Market Structure in Competitive Matching Markets

Bataille, Edner; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers …

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Returns Policies and Retail Price Competition

Padmanabhan, V.; Png, I.P.L. - EconWPA - 2004

We show that returns policies do increase manufacturer profitability by attenuating price competition between retailers. This effect holds only in the presence of end-user demand uncertainty. The conditions under which a returns policy raises the manufacturer's profit are weaker when retailing...

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Mark-up and Capital Structure of the Firm facing Uncertainty

Chatelain - EconWPA - 2004

This note shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and financial market imperfections, price, mark up and the expected degree of capacity utilization (resp. capital) decreases (resp. increases) with the firm internal net worth.

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Pricing on the Internet

Daripa, Arup; Kapur, Sandeep - EconWPA - 2003

competition. Where firms have some market power, as in the market for information goods, we expect discriminatory pricing to … well as economic efficiency, and may emerge as the principal pricing method for a large number of goods and services. …

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The Role of Responsive Pricing in the Internet

MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K.; Murphy, Liam; Murphy, John - EconWPA - 1996

how this responsive pricing puts control of network service back where it belongs: with the users. …

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