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Gunay, Hikmet - 2011

When a durable good of uncertain quality is introduced to the market, some consumers strategically delay their buying to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing strategies when consumers have strategic delay incentives. We show when the...

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Waiting for signalling quality

Gunay, Hikmet - 2013

When a durable good of uncertain quality is introduced to the market, some consumers strategically delay their buying to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing and "waiting" strategies when consumers have strategic delay incentives. We...

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Dynamic Monopoly and Consumers Profiling Accuracy

Laussel, Didier; Resende, Joana; Long, Ngo Van - 2021

discrimination will improve monopoly profit if and only if information precision is higher than a certain threshold level. This U … monopoly’s investment in information accuracy. However, this cost should not dissuade firms to collect some information on …

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Dynamic monopoly and consumers profiling accuracy

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van; Resende, Joana - 2021

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Customer directed advertising and product quality

Esteban, Lola; Hernández-García, José M.; … - 2001

This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...

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Profit Effects of Consumers’ Identity Management : A Dynamic Model

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van; Resende, Joana - 2022

We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently … find that the monopoly profit is a U-shaped function of the privacy cost whatever the degree of the monopolist … (PHI), it has only enough information for group pricing. We show that in the FIA case, the monopoly equilibrium profit is …

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Profit Effects of Consumers’ Identity Management : A Dynamic Model

Laussel, Didier; Long, Ngo Van; Resende, Joana - 2021

We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently … monopoly equilibrium profit is globally an increasing function of the privacy cost while in the PHI case, it is almost always a …

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Experience Goods Monopolist : Freeware As an Advertisement

Niem, Le Duc - 2017

This study examines the situation in which a monopolist offers freeware as an advertisement for the increase of demand to maximize profit even though the existence of such freeware will reduce the power of the monopolist in the market. This study proves that the successful application of...

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Monopolistic nonlinear pricing with consumer entry

Ye, Lixin; Zhang, Chenglin - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 12 (2017) 1, pp. 141-173

bunching occurs, the bunching interval is necessarily smaller. Additionally, under certain conditions the monopoly solution may … even achieve the ?rst best (i.e., production ef?ciency). We also demonstrate that the optimal monopoly so- lutions can be …

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Brand Choices and Periodic Sales As Substitute Instruments for Monopoly Price Discrimination

Xia, Tian; Sexton, Richard J. - 2007

explanation to this puzzle by providing a simple framework to analyze a monopoly seller's optimal marketing strategy in terms of …

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