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Guo, Hong - 2017

This paper investigates an emerging monetization mechanism for app developers – reward advertising. With reward ads, consumers have an option to view ads in exchange for a reward such as premium content. We investigate when and how an app developer should adopt reward ads as a mechanism for...

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Your Uber Is Arriving : Managing Independent Workers through Surge Pricing, Forecast Communication and Worker Incentives

Guda, Harish - 2019

On-demand platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft) often rely on independent workers, who are not directly under the platform's control, to be available at the “right” time and locations to serve consumers at short notice. To manage fluctuating demand across market locations (zones), on-demand platforms...

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Predatory Pricing and Information Aggregation in Markets with a Common Value

Arieli, Itai - 2016

We study a duopoly where the two price setting firms have symmetric information. The firms produce substitute goods with a state dependent common value. The information that is available to both firms about the unknown state of nature is also available to the consumers, who also have access to...

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Strategic Price Complexity in Retail Financial Markets

Carlin, Bruce I. - 2007

There is mounting empirical evidence to suggest that the law of one price is violated in retail financial markets: there is significant price dispersion even when products are homogeneous. Also, despite the large number of firms in the market, prices remain above marginal cost and may even rise...

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Generalized Monopolistic Competition

Selim, Tarek H. - 2019

This paper models a generalized form of monopolistic competition such that consumers are differentiated horizontally by taste while firms are differentiated vertically by quality location. Consumers have quadratic transportation costs of disutility from consuming a non-ideal brand, and firms are...

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Transparency in Collaborative Projects

Beer, Ruth; Qi, Anyan - 2021

Projects involving new product development often require tight collaboration among several firms. The success of such projects depends on all firms' committing resources and generating high quality outputs. We consider a setting with a firm and her collaborator engaging in a collaborative...

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Multiregional Oligopoly with Capacity Constraints

Alsabah, Humoud; Bernard, Benjamin; Capponi, Agostino; … - 2020

We develop a model of Cournot competition between capacity-constrained firms that sell a single good to multiple regions. We provide a novel characterization for the unique equilibrium allocation of the good across regions and design an algorithm to compute it. We show that a reduction in...

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The East End, the West End, and King's Cross : On Clustering in the Four-Player Hotelling Game

Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland; Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2000

We study experimentally a standard four-player Hotelling game, with a uniform density of consumers and inelastic demand. The pure strategy Nash equilibrium configuration consists of two firms located at one quarter of the "linear city," and the other two at three quarters. We do not observe...

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Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism : Theory and Suggestive Evidence

Svitkova, Katarina; Ortmann, Andreas - 2008

particular solution of this problem, certification, where an independent agency provides a costly signal, a certificate, to … nonprofit. The assumptions of our model are derived from stylized facts that we distilled from certification systems currently … literature on certification and provides results that are different from those reported up to now …

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Public Private Partnering for Tourism Development : Setting Up a Successful Strategic Partnership

Droli, Maurizio - 2010

The changes that have been taking place in the last five years require that everyone work together successfully with others. Now, the Albergo diffuso, other hoteliers and also the public have been accustomed to cooperate without deeply analyzing their whole supplying, marketing, management and...

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