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This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might occur when cable TV providers compete with local exchange carriers. Each firm has a fixed capacity that it can use to offer two different services, such as telephony or video. We...
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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 …
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allocation between traffic types, this paper advocates a costbased approach to multicast pricing. When prices are set to reflect … actual network resource consumption, market distortion is minimized. Additionally, this paper calls for pricing multicast … superior to either a purely membership-based or a flat-rate pricing scheme, since it reflects the actual tree cost at all group …
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data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …
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Formulating theoretical models inevitably requires various simplifications that assist in making analysis tractable and that facilitate deriving closed form solutions. While the strategic insights gained from theoretical models of market phenomena are often quite valuable, testing the...
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our premise that consumer response to price and promotion decisions (demand) and the factors influencing firm pricing …
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the factors influencing firm pricing behavior (supply) jointly determine observed market prices and market shares. More … the branded price is higher in markets dominated be national brands.Key Words: private labels, pricing, competitive …
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determinants of both demand and strategic pricing decisions by firms. Consequently, we estimate a simultaneous system of share and … strategic insights into the pricing interaction between national brands and private labels. In our empirical analysis, we employ … find that consumer response to price and promotion decisions (demand) and the factors influencing firm pricing behavior …
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In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and...
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), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality …. With the exception of trade openness and the telecom pricing measures, these variables enter in as statistically …
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