Adurable-goods monopolist who will be introducing new and improved versions of his product must decide how to price his products, keeping in mind the relative attractiveness of the current and future products. Dhebar (1994) has shown that if technology is changing too quickly and the producer cannot credibly commit to future prices and quality, then no equilibrium strategy exists. That is, ther...

Product pricing strategy and online word-of-mouth both influence consumer purchase. There have been increasing interests and conflict results on how to optimize seller’s pricing strategy in dealing with the interaction between price, consumer review, and sales. We focus on the early stage of product sales and develop a two-stage economic model. We find that the product type, that is, whether th...

The main business of an investment company is to hold and manage securities for investment purposes. In today competitive market Pricing and its methodology are complicated motions. It is very important to define a price that can prevail the competition in an open and free market. In order to define the price certain circumstances should be considered. In the academic arena there have been seve...

With the development of the computer technology, many retailers sale the products not only in the entity shop, but also in the online shop. The network channel brings a lot of convenience. However, it also produces the channel conflict. In the dual channel supply chain, the retailers are in a passive position. Therefore, they begin to use the optimal dynamical pricing strategy to determine the ...

1 Abstract— In this paper, we design and develop a pricing model applicable to strategy proof pricing. To provide an economic stability towards its consumers. The economic model we use is Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG). By this each service provider has to provide a true cost of its services in the cloud market. For the selection of suitable service for the consumer we adopt a dynamic programing ...

The objective of this research is to identify the optimal pricing strategy for paid placements on search engines’ “search-results” listings. To accomplish this we develop a mathematical model incorporating a constellation of parameters that describe buyers’ online search intensity, competition among online sellers, and co-opetition between the online sellers and search engine. This model allows...

We organize the existing theoretical pricing research into a new two-level framework for industrial goods pricing. The first level consists of four pricing situations: New Product, Competitive, Product Line, and Cost-based. The second level consists of the pricing strategies appropriate for a given situation. For example, within the new product pricing situation, there are three alternative pri...