Competitive pricing under local network effects

A Tavasoli, M Fazli, E Ardjmand, WA Young II… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper will study the pricing problem of two competitive products in a market
characterized by local externalities. For this purpose, a stochastic model of sales …

Designing price incentives in a network with social interactions

MC Cohen, P Harsha - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: The recent ubiquity of social networks allows firms to collect vast amount
of data on their customers and on their social interactions. We consider a setting in which a …

Multi-objective optimization model in a heterogeneous weighted network through key nodes identification in overlapping communities

H Kalantari, M Ghazanfari, M Fathian… - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, it is possible to easily utilize positive and negative effects of neighbors on a
social network to maximize diffusion of a novel product and profit of the seller. Hence, this …

Cooperative advertising in social networks with positive externalities

D Liang, J Xie, W Zhu, X Zhao - Naval Research Logistics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We study the decisions of a supplier and retailer in a cooperative advertising program to sell
divisible products to consumers in a social network with positive externalities. The supplier …

A monopoly pricing model for diffusion maximization based on heterogeneous nodes and negative network externalities (Case study: A novel product)

A Badiee, M Ghazanfari - Decision Science Letters, 2018 - m.growingscience.com
Social networks can provide sellers across the world with invaluable information about the
structure of possible influences among different members of a network, whether positive or …

Approximation algorithms for pricing with negative network externalities

Z Cao, X Chen, X Hu, C Wang - Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2017 - Springer
We study the problems of pricing an indivisible product to consumers who are embedded in
a given social network. The goal is to maximize the revenue of the seller by the so-called …

Firms' strategic pricing and network externalities

J Zhou, R Xu - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
For the sale of a product with network externalities, a Stackelberg model involving an
incumbent and an entrant is developed considering the impact of three strategic decision …

Inequity aversion pricing over social networks: Approximation algorithms and hardness results

G Amanatidis, P Fulla, E Markakis, K Sornat - Theoretical Computer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
We study a revenue maximization problem in the context of social networks. Namely, we
generalize a model introduced by Alon, Mansour, and Tennenholtz [2] that captures inequity …

Development of a monopoly pricing model for diffusion maximization in fuzzy weighted social networks with negative externalities of heterogeneous nodes using a …

A Badiee, M Ghazanfari - Neural Computing and Applications, 2019 - Springer
Today, informational structure is organized in such a way that sellers can easily employ the
various capabilities of social networks, such as the analysis of positive and negative …

Persuasion in Networks With Strategic Substitutes

G Li, Y Sun - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
We study Bayesian persuasion with local strategic substitutes in networks. A designer
commits to a public signal to maximize total activity. Equilibria are characterized by the …