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Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly with logit demand in which users from two distinct groups are subject to within‐group and cross‐group network effects and decide which platform to join. We characterize the equilibrium when platforms manage user access by setting participation fees for each user group.
Martin Peitz, Susumu Sato
wiley   +1 more source

Buyer‐Optimal Platform Design

The 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

Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS): A Landmark in Surgical Public Health. [PDF]

Int Braz J Urol
Reis LO.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dynamic Pricing With Recommendation and Consumer Feedback

The 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

Reimagining social prescribing through an asset-based community development lens. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health West Pac
Lee KH, Russell C.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts

The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad, Dominik Naeher, Sebastian Vollmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stable Price Dispersion under Heterogeneous Buyer Consideration

The 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

Flawed design and selection bias in critical care randomized controlled trials (RCTs): the patient safety risk of the "RCT mimic". [PDF]

Patient Saf Surg
Lynn LA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Inflated Recommendations

The 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