We analyze two- and three-dimensional variants of Hotelling's model of differentiated products. In our setup, consumers can place different importance on each product attribute; this is measured by a weight in the disutility of distance in each dimension. Two firms play a two-stage game; they...

This paper studies the antecedents of subscription discounts of Italian print magazines. Drawing on previous empirical work on the theme, I formulate six research hypotheses regarding demand and supply factors that may affect subscription pricing. The two-sidedness of magazine industry is...

This paper studies the practise of quality disclosure and quality certification of sellers and experts in the Italian motorcycle industry between 2007 and 2010. Motorcycles are a combination of search, experience and credence attributes and consumers cannot observe product quality perfectly....