objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of … these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring price), may be utilized prior to competitive entry. The second option …, aggressive (predatory) pricing, may be executed post-entry. The effectiveness of both of these options is still controversial …

microeconomic theory provides a useful means of analysis, it offers little for the practice of pricing, which is much more closely …Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction … price determination while, at the same time, (2) full-cost pricing is most commonly accepted pricing policy of construction …

have received extensive attention in complete markets,there remain many open areas in the theory of incomplete markets. We … methodology, in the model presented in the first section. Weappeal to the indifference pricing framework instead of the classic … change-of-numeraire theorem inincomplete markets via indifference pricing. Lastly, in the third essay, we propose a methodto …

The purpose of this work is to empirically assess the validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in terms of … how can it model an equity’s return. The goal of this work is not to challenge the theory behind CAPM, nor compare it to …

Online advertisements are increasingly becoming an attractive channel for advertising. Pricing for online ads has … on their bids for online ads and the consequent implications for pricing policies. Our analysis provides a number of … results, it appears that advertisers’ angst at pricing based on impressions may be misplaced, and that a more critical …

allocating resources among customers to reach their objectives. With resources being available on-demand, pricing becomes an …, pricing can be used for signalling the congestion levels in di erent wireless networks and to let users communicate their … willingness-to-pay to the market.Besides presenting a classification framework for pricing in wireless networks and providing a …

need it. Moreover, due to the presence of multiple WSPs in a region, it is anticipated that dynamic service pricing would … to dynamic service pricing. For spectrum owner--WSPs interaction, we investigate various auction mechanisms for finding … auction mechanism that dynamically allocates spectrum to the WSPs based on their bids. As far as dynamic service pricing is …

This dissertation is a comprehensive study of convertible-preferred-stock pricing and performance following issuance …

the light of agency theory and asymmetric information. The focus is on the nonconvertible callable-puttable fixed …