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Sequential selling and information dissemination in the presence of network effects

Zhou, Junjie; Chen, Ying-Ju - NET Institute - 2014

In this paper, we examine how a seller sells a product/service with a positive consumption externality, and customers are uncertain about the product's/service's value. Because early adopters learn this value, we consider the customers' intrinsic signaling incentives and positive feedback...

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Auctions for Online Display Advertising Exchanges: Approximations and Design

Balseiro, Santiago R.; Besbes, Omar; Weintraub, Gabriel Y. - NET Institute - 2012

Ad Exchanges are emerging Internet markets where advertisers may purchase display ad placements, in real-time and based on specific viewer information, directly from publishers via a simple auction mechanism. Advertisers join these markets with a pre-specified budget and participate in multiple...

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Search Costs, Demand Structure and Long Tail in Electronic Markets: Theory and Evidence

Ghose, Anindya; Gu, Bin - NET Institute - 2006

search costs on firm competition and market structure by exploring a unique theoretical insight that search costs create a … costs and the kinked demand function provides information on how search costs affect competition in the online market. Using … reduces prices than when it increases prices, increasing Amazon’s incentive to engage in price competition. On the other hand …

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Optimal Consumer Network Structure Formation under Network Effects: Seeds Controllability and Visibility

Dou, Yifan; Niculescu, Marius Florin; Wu, Dongjun - NET Institute - 2011

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a monopolistic seller’s optimal consumer network structure formation (seeding, segmentation, sequencing, and pricing strategies) under network effects. We demonstrate the importance of...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013

as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the competition among providers, generating greater surplus for consumers. A …

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Optimal Pricing of Access and Secondary Goods with Repeat Purchases: Evidence from Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Fees

Gil, Ricard; Korkmaz, Evsen; Sahin, Ozge - NET Institute - 2014

In this paper we investigate optimal pricing strategies for an online grocery retailer who derives its profits from delivery fees and grocery sales. We base our theoretical framework upon the well-established work of Schmalensee (1981) in two-part pricing, while allowing for repeat purchase...

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Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure

Huang, Ke-Wei; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2006

We develop and analyze a model of pricing for digital products with discontinuous supply functions. This characterizes a number of information technology-based products and services for which variable increases in demand are fulfilled by the addition of "blocks" of computing or network...

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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS

Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003

calling plans between 1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, when incumbents faced increased competition …

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The Economics of the Internet

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2007

We discuss salient economic aspects of the Internet, including the possible abolition of net neutrality by local broadband access networks as well as potential incompatibilities and degradation of connectivity in the Internet backbone.

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The Economics of Network Neutrality

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2010

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of information transmitted rather than its content. These...

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