This paper develops analytical results and insights for the mixed bundling problem of pricing a product line consisting of two component goods and a bundle of the two goods. Consumer valuations for the two goods follow a symmetric bivariate uniform distribution, a setting which has previously...

Two and three-part tariffs are widely used, for selling goods, to compensate workers, and in procurement contracts. They are practical alternatives to complex non-linear tariffs in on-demand services and technology industries and are more profitable than the restrictive per-unit and...

Firms that serve a large market with many diverse consumer types use discriminatory or nonlinear pricing to extract higher revenue, inducing consumers to separate by self-selecting from a large number of tariff options. But the extent of price discrimination must often be tempered by the high...

The practice of sponsored search advertising - where advertisers pay a fee to appear alongside particularWeb search results - is now one of the largest and fastest growing source of revenue for Web search engines. We model and compare several mechanisms for allocating sponsored slots, including...

Many emerging entrepreneurial applications and services connect two or more groups of users over Internet-based information technologies. Commercial success of such platform technology products requires adoption of astute business practices related to product line design, price discrimination,...