Monetary Policy in East Asia: Common Concerns
By: Marvin Goodfriend, Professor of Economics; Chairman, The Gailliot Center for Public Policy

IMES Discussion Paper Series 2007-E-18, September 2007. This paper was prepared for presentation at the Fourteenth International Conference of the Bank of Japan, "Growth, Integration and Monetary Policy in East Asia," Institute for Monetary Economic Studies, Bank of Japan, Topkyo, Japan, May 30-31, 2007.

Summary:
East Asia is home to a diverse collection of economies ranging in size from the largest countries to the smallest city states. The regional economies are in various stages of two great transitions--from central planning or extensive regulation to a reliance on markets, and from the use of traditional production processes to the application of modern industrial techniques.

An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Effect of Marlboro's Permanent Pricing Shift
By: Tao Chen, doctoral student in Marketing, Baohong Sun, Associate Professor of Marketing and Vishal Singh, Carnegie Bosch Faculty Development Chair; Associate Professor of Marketing.

2006 Tepper School of Business Working Paper

Summary:
The past two decades or so have seen a tremendous growth in discount brands such as private labels and generics. Traditionally, consumers viewed these products as poor substitutes for the branded goods and were willing to pay a price premium to avoid the quality uncertainty associated with an unknown brand.

Software Pricing: Pay-Per-Use Versus Perpetual Licensing
By: Bao-Jun Jiang, doctoral student in Information Systems; Pei-yu Chen, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Deloitte Consulting Professor of e-Business.

2007 Tepper School of Business Working Paper

Summary:
Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. This paper discusses how a proposed pay-per-use licensing mechanism can offer technology-based IP protection against piracy.

Should Firms Share Information About Expensive Customers? An Equilibrium Analysis
By: Sameer Mathur, doctoral student in Marketing; Kannan Srinivasan, H. J. Heinz II Professor of Management, Marketing and Information Systems; Baohong Sun, Associate Professor of Marketing.

2007 Tepper School of Business Working Paper

Summary:
Advances in information technology increasingly allow firms to identify expensive, high-cost customers, who are not only individually less profitable for firms but also raise the average marginal cost incurred by firms and thus impose a negative externality on inexpensive customers. Should competing firms share information that identifies such customers? The answer to this question has important implications for firm profitability, consumer welfare, and privacy laws that currently constrain firms’ ability to share information.

Myopic Biases in Competitions: Implications for Strategic Decision Making
By: Joseph R. Radzevick and Don A. Moore

Tepper School of Business Working Paper

Summary:
In this paper, we have chosen athletic competition as a context in which to study competitive perceptions. We have chosen this context for three reasons. First, unlike most other types of contests, athletic competitions provide outcomes that are clear and unambiguous: Half of all competitors will lose their competitions. The second reason why we have selected the domain of athletic competition is that is provides substantial amounts of experience from participants. The third reason we selected the context of athletic competition is its importance. Americans' spend trillions of dollars annually to watch sporting events. (Read More)