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This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...
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We develop and analyze a model of pricing for digital products withdiscontinuous supply functions. This characterizes a number ofinformation technology-based products and services for which variableincreases in demand are fulfilled by the addition of 'blocks' ofcomputing or network...
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Both theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that in markets withstandards competition, strong network effects can make the strong growstronger and, in some circumstances, even 'tip' the market towards asingle, winner-take-all standard. We theorize that in the presence oflow cost conversion...
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Theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that in many markets with standards competition, network effects make the strong grow stronger and can “tip” the market toward a single, winner-take-all standard. We hypothesize, however, that this sort of standards-induced market dominance may be...
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Standardisierung und stellt dann kurz die Entwicklungen auf dem Markt für digitales Entgeltfernsehen in Deutschland dar. Dieser Markt …The study offers first a selected survey of major contributions to the economic theory of standardization and then … ?incentives of standardization?. But owing to the high degree of abstraction, the analysis is applicable to a great variety of …
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There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
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One major goal of the Nuclear Standards Program is to convert existing NE standards into national consensus standards (where possible). This means that an NE standard in the same subject area using the national consensus process. This report is a summary of the activities that have evolved to...
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Federal Manufacturing & Technologies/New Mexico (FM&T/NM) of AlliedSignal is an organization of approximately 300 associates providing operations support, engineering, and other technical services for DOE, New Mexico`s National Laboratories, etc. Work performed is primarily project-oriented and...
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Standardization (CNIS). Development of the information label grades required consideration of stakeholder input, continuity with the …
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