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Optimizing Reserve Prices in Display Advertising Auctions

Choi, Hana; Mela, Carl F. - 2023

This paper considers how a publisher should set reserve prices for real-time bidding (RTB) auctions when selling …

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How do sellers benefit from Buy-It-Now prices in eBay auctions?

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2019

We investigate experimentally on eBay how sellers set prices in "Buy-It-Now" (BIN) auctions. We find that the eBay … format leads to prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Moreover, our results reveal that the …

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How do sellers benefit from buy-it-now prices in Ebay auctions? : an experimental investigation

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018

In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a "take-it-or-leave-it" price offer (BIN price) prior to an … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price … BIN prices to eBay auctions has an enhancing effect: the eBay BIN auction is more efficient and generates significantly …

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UK markups and profit margins during the pandemic and its aftermath

Guschanski, Alexander; Onaran, Özlem - 2025

We analyse UK markups and profit margins for the pandemic period and its aftermath using unconsolidated balance sheets of non-financial corporations for both listed and unlisted firms. The markup increases by 14.7% between 2014 and 2022, exceeding any previously documented growth rate for UK...

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The Role of Spatial Demand on Outlet Location and Pricing

Duan, Jason A. - 2006

In this paper we consider the problem of outlet pricing and location in the context of unobserved spatial demand. Our analysis constitutes a scenario wherein capacity-constrained firms set prices conditioned on their location, demand and costs. This enables firms to develop maps of latent demand...

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Two-Sided Price Discrimination by Media Platforms

Lin, Song - 2019

An increasingly common practice among media platforms is to provide premium content versions with fewer or even no ads. This practice leads to an intriguing question: how should ad-financed media price discriminate through versioning? I develop a two-sided media model and illustrate that price...

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Uniform Pricing as a Barrier to Entry

Feng, Hong - 2017

This paper considers an entry game in which an incumbent firm operates in a number of markets and a potential entrant seeks to enter some or all of the markets. While price discrimination has usually been thought of as a barrier to entry, in our model it is not and, on the contrary, we find that...

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Antitrust failures : the internet giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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A Model of Recommended Retail Prices

Lubensky, Dmitry - 2016

Manufacturers frequently post non-binding public price recommendations, but neither the rationale for this practice nor its impact on prices is well understood. I develop a model in which recommendations signal a manufacturer's production cost to searching consumers, who then form beliefs about...

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Markups and concentration in the context of digitization: evidence from German manufacturing industries

Weche, John P.; Wagner, Joachim - 2020

Recent empirical studies suggest that there is a rising trend of market power across sectors in advanced economies. We contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on representative high-quality firm level data from...

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