on the size of routing tables, and introduces a pricing scheme that seeks to better reapportion the resulting costs. The …

about the optimal pricing policies or adoption drivers of CDNs. We address these questions using analytic models of the … bursty traffic, and that content providers with bursty traffic realize lower surplus. Similarly, we find that a pricing … policy that accounts for both the mean and variance in traffic such as percentile- based pricing does better than pure volume …

that multiple equilibria may exist which means non-market forces such as regulation and entry strategy might determine the …

Several researchers have recently advocated dynamic pricing mechanisms such as the smart market. This paper explores … how dynamic state-dependent pricing and explicit congestion control can both be used to avoid and alleviate congestion …. Dynamic pricing has significant advantages for heterogeneous traffic, although this paper demonstrates that this approach …

allocation between traffic types, this paper advocates a costbased approach to multicast pricing. When prices are set to reflect … actual network resource consumption, market distortion is minimized. Additionally, this paper calls for pricing multicast … superior to either a purely membership-based or a flat-rate pricing scheme, since it reflects the actual tree cost at all group …

data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

pricing and negotiation. Hence, this dissertation visits two problem domains in operations management, assuming that a …-constrained manufacturer's wholesale pricing problem, assuming that the retailer is free to choose sales formats. The first problem considers a … price that a retailer would choose in the take-it-or-leave-it pricing. This price premium helps the retailer extract more …

Although take-it-or-leave-it pricing is the main mode of operation for many retailers, a number of retailers discreetly … haggle-prone customers negotiate down. In order to effectively measure the benefit of dynamic pricing and negotiation in such … a retail environment, one must take into account the interactions among inventory, dynamic pricing, and negotiation. The …

Assortment planning and pricing are among the most important strategic questions for many firms. These decisions are … assortment, pricing and inventory decisions are complicated enough to push many firms to make these decisions separately …, ignoring their synergy. This dissertation targets this gap by presenting joint assortment and pricing models with inventory …