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Online applications and services automate communications andtransactions between rms and consumers, promising large efficiencygains. However, consumers have been slow to use these onlinetechnologies intensively, despite widespread adoption of the internet.Customers frequently undergo a staggered...
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Firms deliver a variety of services online, ranging from content, software and banking to entertainment and networking. This article examines a firm's pricing decision for online services. It first discusses how a firm's decision of pricing services online differs from offline pricing decisions....
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We review research on revenue models used by online firms who offer digital goods. Such goods are non-rival, have near zero marginal cost of production and distribution, low marginal cost of consumer search, and low transaction costs. Additionally, firms can easily observe and measure consumer...
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Many firms have introduced Internet-based customer self-service applications such as online payments or brokerage services. Despite high initial sign-up rates, not all customers actually shift their dealings online. We investigate whether the multistage nature of the adoption process (an...
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In communication, information, and other industries, three-part tariffs are increasingly popular. A three-part tariff is defined by an access price, an allowance, and a marginal price for any usage in excess of the allowance. Empirical nonlinear pricing studies have focused on consumer choice...
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