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Optimal Retail in a Sharing Economy

Thomas Alois Weber

The emerging sharing economy is fueled by products that some consumers buy new. This paper introduces an overlapping-generations model to analyze consumers’ consumption choices and the equilibrium in the sharing market. We derive a retailer’s optimal prici ...

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An integrated airline scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a monopolized market

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Bilge Atasoy

In airline schedule planning models, the demand and price information are usually taken as inputs to the model. Therefore, schedule and capacity decisions are taken separately from pricing decisions. In this article, we present an integrated scheduling, fl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

The Question of Ownership in a Sharing Economy

Thomas Alois Weber

The sharing of durable goods in a dynamic ownership economy is attractive, since it has the potential to realize gains from trade via short-term transfers of usage rights. We develop a model in which a set of agents, who are heterogeneous in their likely n ...

EPFL2014

The value of updated information on future price behaviour

Ralf Seifert, Shuangqing Liao

This paper studies the value of information on future price behaviour. We consider a one-period inventory modelling framework with random period length and two order opportunities. The selling price is determined dynamically and the demand is price-sensiti ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction

Thomas Alois Weber

Electronic intermediaries have become pervasive in sales transactions for many durables, such as cars, power tools, and apartments. Yet only recently have they successfully tackled the challenge of enabling parties to share such goods. A key impediment to ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

Using Identity Premium for Honesty Enforcement and Whitewashing Prevention

Karl Aberer, Jie Zhang

One fundamental issue with existing reputation systems, particularly those implemented in open and decentralized environments, is whitewashing attacks by opportunistic participants. If identities are cheap, it is beneficial for a rational provider to simpl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

The Rising Gap between Primary and Secondary Mortgage Rates

Andreas Fuster

While mortgage rates reached historic lows during 2012, the spread between primary and secondary rates rose to very high levels. This trend reflected a number of factors that potentially affected mortgage originator costs and profits and restrained the pas ...

2013

An integrated airline scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a monopolized market

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Bilge Atasoy

In airline schedule planning models, the demand and price information are usually taken as inputs to the model. Therefore schedule and capacity decisions are taken separately from pricing decisions. In this paper we present an integrated scheduling, fleeti ...

2012

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

Cloud applications that offer data management services are emerging. Such clouds support caching of data in order to provide quality query services. The users can query the cloud data, paying the price for the infrastructure they use. Cloud management nece ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Optimal service pricing for a cloud cache

Anastasia Ailamaki, Grégory François, Debabrata Dash, Sofia Kyriakopoulou

2011