Buying and selling information under competition

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-351

  Xiang, Yi ^a   Sarvary, Miklos ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Complements; Exclusive contracts; Information asymmetry; Information industry; Strategic substitutes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882455197     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-013-9135-1     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Admati, A.R., & Pfleiderer, P. (1987). Viable allocations of information in financial markets. Journal of Economic Theory, 43, 76-115.
2. Arora, A., & Fosfuri, A. (2005). Pricing diagnostic information. Management Science, 51(7), 1092-1100.
3. Bakos, Y., & Brynjolfsson, E. (1999). Bundling information goods: Pricing, profits, and efficiency. Management Science, 45(12), 1613-1630.
4. Bakos, Y., & Brynjolfsson, E. (2000). Bundling and competition on the Internet. Marketing Science, 19(1), 63-82.
5. Baye, M.R., & Morgan, J. (1999). A folk theorem for one-shot Bertrand games. Economics Letters, 65, 59-65.
6. Chen, Y., Narasimhan, C., Zhang, Z.J. (2001). Individual marketing with imperfect targetability. Marketing Science, 20, 23-41.
7. Christen, M. (2005). Research note: Cost uncertainty is bliss: the effect of competition on the acquisition of cost information for pricing new products. Management Science, 51(4), 668-676.
8. Chu, W., & Messinger, P.R. (1997). Information and channel profits. Journal of Retailing, 73(4), 487-517.
9. ESOMAR (2005). Esomar World Research Report: Industry Study on 2004.Tech. rep., The European Society for Opinion and Market Research.
10. Gal-Or, E. (1986). Information transmission: Cournot and Bertrand equilibria. Review of Economic Studies, 53, 85-92.
11. Iyer, G., & Soberman, D. (2000). Markets for product modification information. Marketing Science, 19(3), 203-225.
12. Jensen, F.O. (1991). Information services. Congram In Friedman (Ed.), The AMA handbook of marketing for the service industries (pp. 423-443). New York: AMA-COM.
13. Pasa, M., & Shugan, S.M. (1996). The value of marketing expertise. Management Science, 42(3), 370-378.
14. Raju, J.S., & Roy, A. (2000). Market information and firm performance. Management Science, 46(8), 1075-1084.
15. Sarvary, M. (2002). Temporal differentiation and the market for second opinions. Journal of Marketing Research, 39, 129-136.
16. Sarvary, M., & Parker, P.M. (1997). Marketing information: A competitive analysis. Marketing Science, 16(1).
17. Villas-Boas, M.J. (1994). Sleeping with the enemy: Should competitors share the same advertising agency? Marketing Science, 13(2), 190-202.
18. Vives, X. (1984). Duopoly information equilibrium: Cournot and Bertrand. Journal of Economic Theory, 34, 71-94.
19. Vives, X. (1999). Oligopoly pricing: old ideas and new tools. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
20. Winkler, R.L. (1981). Combining probability distributions from dependent information sources. Management Science, 27(4), 479-89.