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Competition Between Firms that Bundle
(1999-08)
Information goods are characterized by high fixed (first-copy) costs, but very low costs for the production of additional copies. Marginal costs of electronically-delivered information goods have been further reduced by ...
Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing what to Learn
(2002-11)
In an economy in which a producer must learn the preferences of a consumer population, it is faced with a classic decision problem: when to explore and when to exploit. If the producer has a limited number of chances to ...
Why leave wikipedia?
(iConference, 2008-02)
Among active editors, earlier adopters tend to stay for longer. Higher edit frequency leads to higher likelihood of quitting.
For new users, on their first day, creators are more likely to stay than preservers, and
destroyers ...
Information Bundling in a Dynamic Environment
(2001-10)
Markets for digital information goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to information goods' flexibility and negligible marginal cost. In this paper we compare the dynamic ...
System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals
(2000-09)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities and decreases in the costs of computers and communi-cation networks have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. In one dimension, traditional pricing ...
Evaluating and Selecting Digital Payment Mechanisms
(1997)
The Internet is growing rapidly as a marketplace for the exchange of both tangible and information goods and services. Numerous payment mechanisms suitable for use in this marketplace are in various stages of development. ...
Bilateral Negotiation With Fees
(1999)
Bilateral negotiation over a single good or service is a fundamental problem for automated systems, and is surprisingly resistant to general solutions. In this paper we offer advice and new results for the design of ...
Self-Confirming Price Prediction for Bidding in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions
(2005-07)
Simultaneous ascending auctions present agents
with the exposure problem: bidding to acquire a
bundle risks the possibility of obtaining an undesired
subset of the goods. Auction theory provides
little guidance for ...
The Role of Responsive Pricing in the Internet
(MIT Press, 1996)
The recent introduction of user-friendly navigation and retrieval tools for the World Wide Web has triggered an unprecedented level of interest in the Internet among the media and the general public, as well as in the ...