We examine the profitability and the welfare implications of pricediscrimination in two-sided markets. Platforms have information aboutthe preferences of the agents that allows them to price discriminatewithin each group. The conventional wisdom from one-sided horizontallydifferentiated markets...

We develop an analytical framework to investigate the competitiveimplications of personalized pricing and quality allocation (PPQ),whereby rms charge di¤erent prices and o¤erdi¤erent qualities to di¤erent consumers, based on theirwillingness to pay. We embed PPQ in a model of...

Previous studies suggested that a monopoly durable goods seller can useleasing to effectively avoid the time-inconsistent problem raised byCoase Conjecture. This paper extends those previous works by examiningthe monopoly seller's selling and leasing strategy for a special type ofdurable good...

The ability to digitize information goods such as music and movies and the growing accessibility of the Internet has led to online piracy and the emergence of a new class of retailers that specialize in digital downloads. Both online piracy and digital retailers have changed the dynamics of the...

Abraham Seidmann, thesis advisor. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.