Customized bundle pricing for information goods: A nonlinear mixed-integer programming approach

被引:72
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作者
Wu, Shin-yi [1 ]
Hitt, Lorin M. [2 ]
Chen, Pei-yu [3 ]
Anandalingarn, G. [4 ]
机构
[1] Nanyang Technol Univ, Nanyang Business Sch, Singapore 639798, Singapore
[2] Univ Penn, Wharton Sch, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[3] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Tepper Sch Business, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[4] Univ Maryland, Robert H Smith Sch Business, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
关键词
information goods; electronic commerce; customized bundle; pricing; nonlinear programming; integer programming;
D O I
10.1287/mnsc.1070.0812
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
This paper proposes using nonlinear mixed-integer programming to solve the customized bundle-pricing problem in which consumers are allowed to choose up to N goods out of a larger pool of J goods. Prior work has suggested that this mechanism has attractive features for the pricing of information and other low-marginal cost goods. Although closed-form solutions exist for this problem for certain cases of consumer preferences, many interesting scenarios cannot be easily handled without a numerical solution procedure. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency gains created by customized bundling over the alternatives of pure bundling or individual sale under different assumptions about customer preferences and firm cost structure, as well as the potential loss of efficiency caused by pricing with incomplete information about consumer reservation values. Our analysis suggests that customized bundling enhances sellers' profits and enhances welfare when consumers do not place positive values on all goods, and that this consumer characteristic is much more important than the shape of the valuation distribution in determining the optimal pricing scheme. We also find that customized bundling outperforms both pure bundling and individual sale in the presence of incomplete information, and that customized bundling still outperforms other simpler pricing schemes evert when exact consumer valuations are not known ex ante.
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页码:608 / 622
页数:15
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