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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760643
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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2011
We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905480
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Equilibrium Innovation Ecosystems: The Dark Side of Collaborating with Complementors
Mantovani, Andrea; Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - NET Institute - 2011
whether collaboration ties are formed in an exclusive manner: in fact, exclusivity would only worsen the situation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358866
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Vertical Integration, Exclusivity and Game Sales Performance in the US Video Game Industry
Gil, Ricard; Warzynski, Frédèric - NET Institute - 2010
exclusivity is associated with lower demand. Our estimates suggest that consumers value vertical integration features in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672215
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Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004
Grajek, Michal; Kretschmer, Tobias - NET Institute - 2006
In this paper, we study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. We address two specific questions: First, does information about usage intensity over time allow us to draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion?...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905450
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934839
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358868
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456814
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184809