Abstract I model dynamic product design along price and non-price dimensions by a firm in a market with positive …

This paper studies a "market creating" firm (platform) that offers a matching environment by charging an access fee to … signal of their randomly assigned partner's type and where the informativeness of the signal is controlled by the firm. We …, the profit maximizing firm will over-provide information in relation to the surplus maximizing firm, and the higher the …

boundaries. What makes public beta testing so attractive to firms? By introducing semi-completed products in the market, the firm … based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm … strategies like “skimming” or “penetration pricing” with beta launches. This analysis is done for products of branded and …

reduction in the switching cost makes the firms' products more attractive relative to the outside good, which diminishes the … market expansion benefit of making products compatible. As a result, the larger firm is more likely to veto compatibility in … competition is mild and the market is often fragmented, whereas in the latter, there is fierce price competition when firms are of …

We consider a structural model of demand and supply where firms endogenously offer vertically differentiated products … firm only offers its highest-quality product. We also study the market outcomes such as price, product variety and welfare …