We examine the price decisions in a vertically differentiated duopoly where the decision to buy a good depends not only upon the intrinsic utility from consuming it but also upon the social attributes (prestige, uniqueness etc) associated with its consumption. These social attributes are...

In a duopoly model of horizontal and vertical differentiation, where consumers are ex-ante unaware of product qualities, we study the firms' incentives to signal quality via prices. Consumers, after they observe prices, can evaluate a firm's product quality before purchase if they incur a search...

We model in a game theoretic context managerial intervention directed towards value enhancement in the presence of uncertainty and spillover effects. Two firms face real investment opportunities, and before making the irreversible investment decisions, they have options to enhance value by doing...

Matched-model price indexes generally overestimate quality-adjusted prices, because the price/performance ratio of models sold in consecutive periods is worse than that of new models. This "unrepresentativeness" of the sample potentially might be reduced by obtaining higher-frequency data, thus...

This paper examines the joint pricing decision of products in a firm's product line. When products are distinguished by a vertical characteristic, those with higher values of that characteristic will command higher prices. We investigate whether, holding the value of the characteristic constant,...