pricing and negotiation. Hence, this dissertation visits two problem domains in operations management, assuming that a …-constrained manufacturer's wholesale pricing problem, assuming that the retailer is free to choose sales formats. The first problem considers a … price that a retailer would choose in the take-it-or-leave-it pricing. This price premium helps the retailer extract more …

Online advertisements are increasingly becoming an attractive channel for advertising. Pricing for online ads has … on their bids for online ads and the consequent implications for pricing policies. Our analysis provides a number of … results, it appears that advertisers’ angst at pricing based on impressions may be misplaced, and that a more critical …

Ever since the beginning of the nineties, interconnection pricing emerged as a high priority regulatory policy question … to regulate interconnection markets. It is comprised of three papers on access pricing in one-way as well as in twoway … services and compete for customers. Traditional literature on interconnection pricing uses primarily per-unit access charges …

on the size of routing tables, and introduces a pricing scheme that seeks to better reapportion the resulting costs. The …

about the optimal pricing policies or adoption drivers of CDNs. We address these questions using analytic models of the … bursty traffic, and that content providers with bursty traffic realize lower surplus. Similarly, we find that a pricing … policy that accounts for both the mean and variance in traffic such as percentile- based pricing does better than pure volume …

that multiple equilibria may exist which means non-market forces such as regulation and entry strategy might determine the …

Several researchers have recently advocated dynamic pricing mechanisms such as the smart market. This paper explores … how dynamic state-dependent pricing and explicit congestion control can both be used to avoid and alleviate congestion …. Dynamic pricing has significant advantages for heterogeneous traffic, although this paper demonstrates that this approach …