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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"two-sided market"”.
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Efficiency loss in a class of two-sided market mechanisms
… We will analyze the efficiency loss of certain two-sided market mechanisms involving both consumers and suppliers that are natural extensions of Johari's thesis. After gaining intuition about the mechanisms, we show that their worst case efficiency loss approaches 100%. We then introduce some …
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Experimental studies of arbitration mechanisms and two-sided markets
… of different polices on the price stricter in a two-sided market monopoly.</p> <p>Promising results to improve arbitration used in the field are obtained from Amended Final Offer Arbitration (AFOA), which outperforms Final-Offer Arbitration (FOA) and weakly outperforms Conventional Arbitration …
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Managing Self-Scheduling Capacity
… Lyft, Postmates, and Instacart have created markets in which independent service providers provide on-demand service to consumers. A hallmark of this arrangement is that providers decide for themselves when, where, and how much to work. In other words, the platform does not set its capacity's …
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Single-Homing and Multi-Homing in the Videogame Market
… the main dynamics that can arise in a platform market characterized by the platform competition in a two sided market contest. After a brief review of the literature some definitions and examples are provided. Then, the basic model is introduced and the equilibriums are analysed. The main …
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APPLIED MECHANISM DESIGN AND ECONOMICS OF PLATFORMS
… for a monopolistic ride-hailing platform in a two-sided market setting. Our main result shows that when consumers' valuation distribution is concave, fully-discriminatory price mechanism is optimal; while when consumers' valuation distribution is convex, optimal uniform price mechanism is …
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Market Power of Digital Platforms: An Investigation of the Online Networking Market
… economic growth. The platform’s business model—two-sided market—has established more efficient, even costless marketplaces for business and consumers. However, the largest digital platforms’ incredible number of users and resources and their dominant position in the market have raised severe …
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Non-Linear Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
… is a fairly predominant practice in most real markets, mostly characterized by some amount of competition. The sophistication of pricing practices has increased in the latest decades due to the technological advances that have allowed companies to gather more and more data on consumers …
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Implications of sponsored data programs for profits and consumer welfare: models and analyses
… Content Providers (CPs) to pay for the use of network capacity by consumers to access their contents. Whether such programs are socially desirable is being debated. While proponents of these programs claim that consumers, CPs, and MSPs can benefit from free data, more advertising revenue, and …
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Two sided markets and efficiency in the Internet
Competition between network providers is believed to be a necessary condition for an efficient functioning Internet industry. It spurs technology innovation as network providers compete to provide better quality and enhanced services; improving consumers' welfare in the process. Given the impact of …
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The Journey from Supplier to End Customer: Exploring the Dynamics of Supply Chain and Distribution Channels in the Hospitality Industry
… while suppliers rely on retailers to buy and market their products. With intense competition in the industry, effective supplier selection has become a critical asset for companies. Traditional supply chain management approaches that focus solely on increasing economic value are insufficient …
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ONLINE LEARNING METHODS FOR DIGITAL MARKETS
We cast several problems arising from digital markets and economics into an online learning framework, where a learner sequentially interacts with an unknown environment, trying to discover its relevant features to maximize her cumulative reward. After an introduction to online learning in Chapter …
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SENSOR MANAGEMENT FOR LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
<p>Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are very useful in many application areas including battlefield surveillance, environment monitoring and target tracking, industrial processes and health monitoring and control. The classical WSNs are composed of large number of densely deployed sensors, where …