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The optimal pricing of goods, especially when they are new and the innovating firm is a monopolist, must proceed without precise knowledge of the demand curve. This paper provides a pricing method with a relative robustness guarantee by maximizing a perfor ...
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Using a parsimonious model, this paper analyzes a dockless bike-sharing (DLB) service that competes with walking and a generic motorized mode. The DLB operator chooses a fleet size and a fare schedule that dictate the level of service (LOS) as measured by ...
2023Price discrimination with robust beliefs
This paper considers the problem of second-degree price discrimination when the type distribution is unknown or imperfectly specified by means of an ambiguity set. As robustness measure we use a performance index, equivalent to relative regret, which quant ...
2023Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity
As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pr ...
EPFL2021Inter-platform competition in a regulated ride-hail market with pooling
This paper studies an aggregate ride-hail market in which two platforms compete with each other, as well as with transit, under different supply and regulatory conditions. The duopoly is built on a general market equilibrium model that explicitly character ...
2021Monopsony, Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve
With nominal wage rigidities, it is crucial to distinguish whether wages are set by workers or firms -- whether we have monopoly or monopsony power. This paper provides a model of wage bargaining in the labour market where workers have monopoly power over ...
2020Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players
Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal
In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry
For many decades, the postal industry offered postal services and in parallel, had a monopoly over the national postal markets. Recently, the postal industry endured a phase where their national postal markets were subjected to liberalisation by the respec ...
EPFL2017