Resale price maintenance (RPM) is a channel pricing strategy that establishes the price below which a product cannot be resold. The Supreme Court’s decision in Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007) overruled a nearly 100-year old rule against RPM agreements. Together with...

Resale price maintenance (RPM) is a controversial pricing practice for managing retail distribution channels. In Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007), the Supreme Court abolished a nearly century-old per se rule against RPM established in Dr. Miles Medicine Co. v. John D....

“Digital business ecosystems” (DBEs) reflect the culmination of progressive changes in business models and organizational structure over the last 40 years. The ubiquity of many large DBEs in our economy, society, and political system is troubling, as is their significant market power, which...

“Digital business ecosystems” (DBEs) reflect the culmination of progressive changes in business models and organizational structure over the last 40 years. The ubiquity of many large DBEs in our economy, society, and political system is troubling, as is their significant market power, which...

The author examines issues and questions in the antitrust analysis of slotting allowances and fees. Focus is given to those circumstances where suppliers employ their payment in ways that disadvantage rivals and have the effect of limiting competition and ultimately harming consumers. Under such...

Sponsored search advertising is ascendant Jupiter Research reportsexpenditures rose 28% in 2007 to $8.9B and will continue to rise at a15% CAGR, making it one of the major trends to affect the marketinglandscape. Yet little, if any empirical research focuses upon searchengine marketing strategy...

This paper considers the joint creation and consumption of content on user generated content platforms (e.g., reviews or articles, chat, videos, etc.). On these platforms, users' utilities depend upon the participation of others; hence, users' expectations regarding the participation of others...

Sponsored search advertising is ascendant---Jupiter Research reports expenditures rose 28% in 2007 to $8.9B and will continue to rise at a 15% CAGR, making it one of the major trends to affect the marketing landscape. Yet little, if any empirical research focuses upon search engine marketing...

We study the problem of a firm that faces asymmetric information about the productivity of its potential workers. In our framework, a worker’s productivity is either assigned by nature at birth, or determined by an unobservable initial action of the worker that has persistent effects over...