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This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules andtechnological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy wheresellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing digitalrights management (DRM) systems. It is shown that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be...
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, network and electronic commerce products. It alsomakes an independent contribution to the theory of second …-degree pricediscrimination, by providing the first solution of monopoly screeningwhen costs are discontinuous, and when costs incurred can only …, network and electronic commerce products. It alsomakes an independent contribution to the theory of second …
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This dissertation investigates the effect of market concentration on nonlinearpricing strategies in the airline industry. The study develops a theoretical nonlinearpricing model with both discrete product and consumer types to derive testable implications about the impact of market concentration...
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core issues in antitrust. Topics include: the organization of the firm, monopoly, price discrimination, oligopoly, and …. The course presumes that students have a familiarity with micro theory, basic game theory and some econometrics. …
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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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?tze aus der Neuen Politischen ?konomie sowie der Theorie der Verf?gungsrechte wird auf Effizienzunterschiede auf Grund …
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As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large datasets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of productsbecome available. These present exciting new opportunities for empiricaleconomic and business research, but also raise new statistical issuesand challenges. In...
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This dissertation uses game theoretic models to examine the effects of agent anonymity on markets for goods and for information. In open, anonymous settings, such as the Internet, anonymity is relatively easy to obtain --- oftentimes another email address is sufficient. By becoming anonymous,...
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monopoly and duopoly. Foggy tariffoptions are those that are dominated by another option or a combinationof other tariff … tariff options in acompetitive market than under monopoly. While markets are profitable,perhaps because they grow or because …
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This paper studies how a seller should design its price schedule when consumers' preferences are subject to temptation. As in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001),consumers exercise costly self-control to some degree and foresee their impulsivebehavior and self-control. Since consumers may pay a premium...
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