Predictive pricing (e.g., Google’s “Smart Pricing” and Yahoo’s “Quality-Based Pricing”) and revenue sharing are two important tools that online advertising networks can use in order to attract content publishers and advertisers. We develop a simple model of the pay-per-click advertising market to study the market effects of these tools. We then present an algorithm, PricingPolicy, for computing...

In this paper we consider a single inventory (newsboy) problem in which the vendor has a limited amount of funds to purchase items to sell. We assume that the manufacturer will either sell the items to the vendor outright or offer the items to the vendor on a revenue sharing (consignment) basis. In the latter case, that amount of money the vendor pays per unit is less than if the items are purc...

revenue management is the process of accepting or ordering which increases gained revenue by using different techniques of pricing and selling capacity. this technique has improved greatly in service sector specially passenger section. in this article, the process of selling ticket in tehran-mashhad route for ghazal passenger train is modeled by two methods: static multi class and heuristic ems...

Sports leagues constitute one of the few examples of legally operating cartels. In this paper I examine how gate revenue sharing may serve to coordinate talent investments within these cartels. I show that sharing revenues has the potential to raise cartel profits, because it decreases the incentive to invest in playing talent. Leagues consisting of teams with heterogeneous local markets should...

The introduction of carbon charges on the use of fossil fuels in China would have a progressive impact on income distribution. This outcome, which contrasts to the regressive distributional impact found in most studies of carbon charges in industrialized countries, is driven primarily by differences between urban and rural expenditure patterns. If carbon revenues were recycled on an equal per c...

Renewable energy generation and storage requires specialized capital goods, embedding critical raw materials (CRM). The scarcity of CRM therefore affects the transition from a fossil based system to one on renewables, necessary cope with climate change. We consider issue in theoretical model, where we allow for very costly potential substitute, reflecting backstop technology, partial recycling ...

In a two-stage supply chain composed of a supplier and a retailer, the supply chain models under a fuzzy environment are researched. The parameters of market demand function, the costs of the supplier and retailer are treated as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. The decision processes are analyzed under the decentralized and centralized decision, and the decision model with revenue sharing contract is...

This paper discusses the influence of time inconsistency problem on technology-leading firms' choice between in-house production and technology transfer. Because of incredibility of innovator's commitment of not exporting after licensing, she may not be able to extract rent from licensing as much as when she could commit credibly. Facing this distortion, she chooses in-house production when the...