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Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A platform matches a unit mass of sellers, each owning a single product of heterogeneous quality, to a unit mass of buyers with differing valuations for unit‐quality. After matching, sellers make take‐it‐or‐leave‐it price‐offers to buyers. Initially, valuations of buyers are only known to them and the platform, but sellers make inferences from
Daniele Condorelli, Balazs Szentes
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Pricing With Recommendation and Consumer Feedback

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐lived seller sells a new product of unknown value by offering prices and recommendations to short‐lived consumers in continuous time. The seller receives consumer feedback about the product at a rate that increases with the instantaneous sales volume.
Wenji Xu, Shuoguang Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Stable Price Dispersion under Heterogeneous Buyer Consideration

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the pricing of homogeneous products sold to customers who consider different sets of suppliers. We identify prices that are stable in the sense that no firm wishes to undercut a rival or to raise its price when rivals are able to respond by offering special deals.
David P. Myatt, David Ronayne
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of life, mental health, and socio-demographic differences across sex work settings: implications for specialized healthcare and support services. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
Kalinowski O   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Inflated Recommendations

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biased recommendations arise naturally in markets with heterogeneous consumers. We study a model in which a monopolist offers an experience good to a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes and makes personalized purchase recommendations.
Martin Peitz, Anton Sobolev
wiley   +1 more source

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