This paper studies content strategies for online publishers of digital information goods. It examines sampling … strategies and compares their performance to paid content and free content strategies. A sampling strategy, where some of the … industry. We analyze optimal decisions concerning the size of the sample and the price of the paid content when sampling serves …

Acceptance sampling is often used to monitor the quality of raw materials and components when product testing is … destructive, time-consuming, or expensive. In this paper we consider the effect of a buyer-imposed acceptance sampling policy on … pass-through cost, i.e., a fixed cost per defective unit passed on to the buyer. We show that the acceptance sampling plan …

Firms often use acceptance sampling to monitor the quality of the raw materials and components delivered by suppliers …, to changes in the supplier's level of risk aversion and to changes in the parameters of the customer's sampling plan. We … motivates suppliers to improve quality, customers have an economic justification for using acceptance sampling even when there …

examine the effect of test sensitivity, specificity, and sampling error on the ability to segregate safe and unsafe suppliers …