Showing 1 - 10 of 1,028
The paper studies the impact of homophily on the optimal strategies of a monopolist, whose marketing campaign of new product relies on a word of mouth communication. Homophily is a tendency of people to interact more with those who are similar to them. In the model there are two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272373
We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market framework. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381848
We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518802
monopoly, analysing questions of introductory pricing and quantity rationing. The model suggests that neither of these two … instruments is able to explain why we see so much free software in the markets. -- software monopoly ; lagged network externality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725487
We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided mar- ket. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490256
encourage buyers to bargain. The posted price not only exceeds the monopoly price, it can be higher than the price a seller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052738
Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard tended to emphasize the same requirement for a monopoly price to emerge, as far as … regard to the question of the limits to monopoly pricing. The inelasticity of demand criterion of both authors left less room … for monopoly prices in their theoretical constructs of a hampered market economy than there really is. If one wants to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018419
We consider second-degree price discrimination for two types of consumers. When the net-of-cost valuation functions cross at least once at some positive quantity, it is always optimal to serve both types of consumers. Moreover, the type with the higher valuation peak always gets the socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022346
We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022496
We provide a general definition of bundling that encompasses the bundling of two or more objects over sets of three or more objects. Bundled objects may be units of the same product, different products, or both. Such bundling encompasses a range of controversial pricing practices that have drawn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921218