Significant evidence has emerged that consumers are boundedly rational and display a sunk cost bias when making decisions. We compare two commonly used pricing schemes, fixed fee and time-based pricing, when customers exhibit sunk cost bias in a service setting with diagnosis and treatment...

This work explores the potential of revenue sharing contracts to facilitate information sharing in a supply chain and mitigate the negative effects of information leakage. We consider a supplier who offers a revenue sharing contract to two competing retailers, one of whom has private information...

We investigate the performance of two commonly used pricing schemes -- hourly-rate contract and two-part tariff -- in service environments where the buyer's valuation is invisible to the service provider and the provider's effort may not be visible to the buyer. In the private effort...