. This article examines a firm's pricing decision for online services. It first discusses how a firm's decision of pricing … services online differs from offline pricing decisions. It then discusses how firms can price services online. It examines the … firm's choice between ‘fee’ or ‘free’ revenue models. It then turns to a firm's decision on its pricing structure …

Textbooks present the three ‘degrees’ of price discrimination as a sequence of independent pricing methods. These … textbook treatments consequently provide inadequate insight as to when a firm might adopt a particular pricing strategy. The … discrimination in an integrated way. The pricing strategy adopted by firms is based on the information on consumer demand available …

The two central pricing rules contained in most antitrust laws are prohibitions of below-cost pricing and prohibitions … of discriminatory pricing. This article shows that the rule against discriminatory pricing may actually induce firms to …

pricing in the presence of such network effects, under incomplete information, and with the threat of competitive entry. Both … across customers, while in others cases, network effects raise the usage of all market participants. Optimal pricing is shown … important implications for pricing policy. The threat of entry generally lowers profits for the monopolist, and increases …

This paper presents a theoretical framework for analyzing pricing structures in debit card schemes featuring … retailers do. This corner solution carries over when we analyze socially optimal pricing. …

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 to a nonlinear usage-based pricing scheme is always profit …

We analyze the optimal design of a markdown pricing mechanism with preannounced prices. In the presence of limited …

productivity heterogeneity. The model brings theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices …