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to analyze the social learning mechanism and its effect on the seller's pricing decision. This analysis borrows from the … literature on social learning and on pricing and revenue management. Consumers follow a naive decision rule and, under some … conditions, eventually learn the product's quality. Using mean-field approximation, the dynamics of this learning process are …
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to analyze the social learning mechanism and its effect on the seller's pricing decision. Consumers follow an intuitive … non-Bayesian decision rule and, under some conditions, eventually learn the product's quality. We show how the learning … of this learning process, its dependence on the price, and the market heterogeneity with respect to quality preferences …
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reduction in required transaction costs: learning, reputation building and platform policy. I show that all three are likely …
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. The ratings data of Netflix is used to fit a structural Bayesian learning model. This model links revealed experience …
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A cornerstone of the law and economics approach to standard form contracts is the Òinformed minorityÓ hypothesis: in competitive markets, a minority of term-conscious buyers is enough to discipline sellers from offering unfavorable boilerplate terms. The informed minority argument is widely...
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How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the shift to online distribution channels has changed the way airlines compete for customers - from an environment in which airlines compete for space at the top of travel...
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As online information availability for products and services is increasing and as buyers engage in more online search prior to purchase decisions, it is becoming more important for firms to know when to invest to reduce buyer uncertainty. This article argues that today's firms should view...
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This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...
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The YouTube platform reduces fixed entry costs for local artists but also lowers the cost of access to international superstars. The net effect is an empirical question. We study the effect of YouTube on the market for music, focusing on converging tastes for international hits. We consider...
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We investigate how the expansion of Craigslist into different states over a 11 year period in the United States affected the incidence of HIV. Using a natural experiment setup, we identify the effects of Craigslist's entry on HIV trends by exploiting the variations across states and time. After...
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