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Optimal Pricing in a Hazard Rate Model of Demand

Sethi, Suresh; Bass (deceased), Frank M. - 2014

Optimal control theory is employed to derive explicitly the optimal (profit maximizing) price of a durable new product …

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing : Two-Part Tariffs

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - 2008

network i pays to network j as a linear function of the marginal costs and the retail prices set by both networks. In the case … additional objectives such as consumer surplus, network coverage or investment: in particular, we show that the regulator can …

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The Oligopolistic Pricing Problem - A Suggested Price Freeze Remedy

Sagi, Guy - 2007

In this paper I set forth an antitrust remedy for the oligopolistic pricing problem. Oligopoly pricing resembles a repeated prisoners' dilemma game. Each firm has an incentive to moderately lower its price and thus increase its sales at its competitors' expense. However, each firm knows that its...

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Internet Interconnection and the Off-Net-Cost Pricing Principle

Laffont, Jean-Jacques; Marcus, J. Scott; Rey, Patrick; … - 2014

The paper develops a framework for Internet backbone competition. In the absence of direct payments between websites and consumers, the access charge allocates communication costs between websites and consumers and affects the volume of traffic. The paper analyzes the impact of the access charge...

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Regulatory Pricing Policies to Neutralize Network Dominance

Economides, Nicholas; Lopomo, Giuseppe; Woroch, Glenn - 2008

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of several pricing rules intended to promote entry into a network industry … interconnected networks. In a symmetric equilibrium, the price of cross-network calls exceeds the price of internal calls. This … "calling circle discount" tends to "tip" the industry to a monopoly equilibrium as would a network externality. By equalizing …

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Uniform Spatial Pricing

Lederer, Phillip J. - 2011

Uniform spatial pricing is a pricing policy by which a firm delivers its product to any customer at a fixed price, independent of the customer's location. For example, it is the method often, but not always used by mail-order and internet firms. Less well-recognized is that uniform pricing is...

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Bundling and Competition for Slots : Sequential Pricing

Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2009

In this paper we study, as in Jeon-Menicucci (2009), competition between sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products to a buyer having limited slots. This paper considers sequential pricing and complements our main paper (Jeon- Menicucci, 2009) that considers simultaneous...

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Optimal Pricing of a Product Diffusing in Rich and Poor Populations

Hartl, R. F. - 2009

We consider a market consisting of two populations, termed rich and poor for convenience. If a product is priced such that it is very expensive for the poor, but affordable to the rich, then it becomes a status symbol for the poor and this makes it more desirable for the poor. At a lower price,...

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Regulation through reference prices

Salgado, Alfredo - 2022

This paper theoretically analyzes the role of reference prices on competition and welfare in a context of a circular city model with free entry and reference prices, in which paying market prices above a reference negatively affects the utility of consumers. Agents interact in a three-stage...

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On the Partial Public Provision of a Private Good

Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021

When the public provision of private goods is partial rather than universal, public supply may be supplemented by the entry of private firms in the market for the private good. The main purpose of this paper is to explore whether partial public provision helps or hinders aggregate access to the...

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