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Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods
Sundararajan, Arun - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 12, pp. 1660-1673
This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods under incomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricing and usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-based pricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offering fixed-fee pricing in addition...
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Monopole, stratégies multiproduit et incitation à la recherche et développement.
Bonnisseau, Jean-Marc; Ghazzai, Hend - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2005
intensity of preference for quality and their income, we study the optimal strategy of a natural monopoly : how many qualities … to produce ? Which qualities should be produced? What prices have to be set to maximize the monopoly profit? Considering … costless production, the monopoly optimal strategies are such that the consumers with the same income buy the same quality. The …
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INNOVATIVE BUSINESS MODELS IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY
Soloviev, Vladimir I.; Kurochkin, Pavel A.; Rendiuk, … - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2010) 12, pp. 21-21
In the modern media industry, in addition to the traditional business model of proprietaryproducts selling, there are a number of new business models that involve free distribution of wholeproducts, or some parts of the products. The advantage of the open business model is in the valuecreation...
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Quality Differentiation and Trade Intermediation
Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2012
Existing studies show that intermediaries can help verify or screen product quality for buyers. This paper examines this claim both theoretically and empirically in the context of international trade. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model that features vertical and horizontal differentiations of...
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Market coverage and the nature of product differentiation: a note
Wauthy, Xavier Y - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 2, pp. 1129-1136
In this note, we analyze the equilibrium outcomes of pricing games with product differentiation in relation with the extent of market coverage. It is a received idea in the IO literature that the horizontal and vertical models of product differentiation are almost formally equivalent. We show...
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Quality Differentiation and Trade Intermediation
Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
Existing studies show that intermediaries can help verify or screen product quality for buyers. This paper examines this claim both theoretically and empirically in the context of international trade. We develop a heterogeneous firm model that features vertical and horizontal differentiation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010626168
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Intermediation by heterogeneous oligopolists
Morasch, Karl - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2010
In his book on 'Market Microstructure' Spulber presented some strange results with respect to the impact of the substitutability parameter in an intermediation model with differentiated products and inputs. Intuitively, effects in the product and the input market should be similar: if firms...
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Führt Google Shopping zu einer neuen Art von Wettbewerbsproblem?
Blanckenburg, Korbinian von - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 3, pp. 240-256
This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...
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International Trade Policy towards Monopoly and Oligopoly
Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz, Juan - Banco de España - 2009
differentiation the duopoly is subsidized or the government remains inactive. In contrast, the monopoly is always subsidized. The …
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Monopolistic competition, product variety and growth : Chamberlin vs. Schumpeter
Smulders, Sjak; van de Klundert, Theo - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1992
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