newspapers, quality can increase or decrease depending on the sensitivity of advertising revenue to quality. …) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality … leads each newspaper to specialize in terms of news coverage. In this case, its presence changes quality choices from …

How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the …’ incentives to provide high quality products. …

The aim of this research is to analyze whether and when ratings are informative signals about the quality of movies … the quality using ratings as signals. The signal produced by one rating is very noisy and might not be taken into account …. The more people rate, the better are signals' quality. Consumers are not considerably dispersed in how they value quality. …

displayed alongside these results is priced using a separate auction. Search engine advertising prices therefore reflect … policy debate asks if this marketing strategy merely makes advertising more informative, or whether it also effectively … extracts rent from advertisers. To inform this debate and to better understand search engine advertising more generally, we …

Programmers can distribute new software to online users either for a fee as shareware or bundle it with advertising …

costs, price dispersion and quality differentiation among stores, price and quality correlation, and consumers’ relative … preference for service quality. …

, we explain how product quality decisions influence future investments to reduce buyer uncertainty, and demonstrate how … firms should take this dependency into account to avoid over-investing in quality. We also show that firms, and especially … lower quality firms, can free ride on the product information already available in the market, and reduce their own …

quality and installed base asymmetries, or only some firms in the industry interconnecting. More dimensions of differentiation …

-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B …