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Matching & Information Provision by One-Sided and Two-Sided Platforms

Canon, Carlos - NET Institute - 2011

This paper studies a "market creating" firm (platform) that offers a matching environment by charging an access fee to a population of high and low type users who wish to form a match. We focus on an environment where users only observe a signal of their randomly assigned partner's type and...

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Monopoly Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning

Ifrach, Bar; Maglaras, Costis; Scarsini, Marco - NET Institute - 2012

to analyze the social learning mechanism and its effect on the seller's pricing decision. Consumers follow an intuitive …. Two pricing policies are studied: a static price, and one with a single price change. Finally, numerical experiments … suggest that pricing policies that account for social learning may increase revenues considerably relative to policies that do …

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Monopoly Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning

Ifrach, Bar; Maglaras, Costis; Scarsini, Marco - NET Institute - 2011

to analyze the social learning mechanism and its effect on the seller's pricing decision. This analysis borrows from the … literature on social learning and on pricing and revenue management. Consumers follow a naive decision rule and, under some … heterogeneity of quality preferences. Two pricing strategies are studied: a static price and a single price change. Properties of …

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Dynamic Platform Design

Veiga, Andre - NET Institute - 2014

Abstract I model dynamic product design along price and non-price dimensions by a firm in a market with positive network externalities between consumers. In the case of a usage fee, I provide conditions under which the steady state (SS) is unique and show that the introductory price is negative...

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Introduction of Software Products and Services Through "Public" Beta Launches

Mehra, Amit; Shrimali, Gireesh - NET Institute - 2008

strategies like “skimming” or “penetration pricing” with beta launches. This analysis is done for products of branded and … pricing and advertising on the beta launch strategy. …

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Switching Costs and Dynamic Price Competition in Network Industries

Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2009

Motivated by policy makers' recent interest in reducing switching costs in various network industries to increase competition, this paper investigates how switching costs affect market outcome in such industries. The results show that the effects of switching costs on market concentration and...

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Market Entry in E-Commerce

Kasy, Maximilian; Kummer, Michael - NET Institute - 2008

We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation...

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Competition in Prices and Service Level Guarantees

Johari, Ramesh; Weintraub, Gabriel - NET Institute - 2007

, we find that when costs in the original game are convex, the resulting equivalent pricing game also has convex costs …. Further, for a broad class of models exhibiting constant returns to investment, the resulting pricing game is equivalent to a …

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Competing Complements

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Nalebuff, Barry; Yoffie, David B. - NET Institute - 2007

In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A+B bundle is valuable only when purchased together. Good A is...

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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation in Asymmetric Oligopolies: the Case of Spain

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel Luis - NET Institute - 2011

We examine the effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies. We do this by extending existing models of asymmetric duopoly and symmetric oligopoly where consumer expectations about market shares are passive. We first calibrate product differentiation parameters using...

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