Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Class Pricing 

      Wernerfelt, Birger (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-01-15)
      A contract with K-class pricing divides a large set of goods or services into K classes and assigns a single price to any element of a class. Class pricing can be efficient when several different versions may be traded and ...

    • Sunk Costs and Risk-Based Barriers to Entry 

      Pindyck, Robert S. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Mangement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-02-13)
      In merger analysis and other antitrust settings, risk is often cited as a potential barrier to entry. But there is little consensus as to the kinds of risk that matter— systematic versus non-systematic and industry-wide ...

    • The prevalence of user innovation and free innovation transfers: Implications for statistical indicators and innovation policy 

      Gault, Fred; von Hippel, Eric A. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Managememnt, Massachusetts Institute of Management, 2009-02-03)
      Statistical indicators have not kept pace with innovation research. Today, it is well understood that many industrial and consumer products are developed by users, and that many innovations developed at private cost are ...