This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Diskussion der institutionellen Ausgestaltung der Schieneninfrastruktur. Es wird diskutiert, welche Privatisierungsmodelle welche Anreize auf Schieneninfrastrukturunternehmen aus?ben und wie diese auf den Nutzen der individuellen Nachfrager nach Schieneninfrastruktur...

The following dissertation is a collection of four stand-alone research papers. The focus of my research is on the interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of natives and necessary implications for the immigration...

Information systems can serve as intermediaries between the buyers andthe sellers in a market, creating an "electronic marketplace"that lowers the buyers' cost to acquire information about seller pricesand product offerings. As a result, electronic marketplaces reduce theinefficiencies caused by...

This dissertation, in its most general context, is an investigation into themodeling of markets with imperfectly informed agents. In such markets, there willinvariably be incentives for informed agents to take advantage of informationasymmetries by disseminating the relevant information to...

Die Liberalisierung der Elektrizitätsmärkte in Europa hat zu einem deutlichen Strukturwandel der Energiewirtschaft geführt; Überkapazitäten und Wettbewerbsdruck bewirkten eine erhebliche Umorientierung in den Energieversorgungsunternehmen. Durch die zunehmende Liquidität des kurzfristigen...

We develop an analytical framework to investigate the competitiveimplications of personalized pricing and quality allocation (PPQ),whereby rms charge di¤erent prices and o¤erdi¤erent qualities to di¤erent consumers, based on theirwillingness to pay. We embed PPQ in a model of...

As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large datasets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of productsbecome available. These present exciting new opportunities for empiricaleconomic and business research, but also raise new statistical issuesand challenges. In...