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Economic Modeling of Software Platform Design and Software Anti-Piracy
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- Author / Creator
- Sun, Can
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This thesis is composed of three individual papers in information system area. In the first paper, we build an economic model to study the problem of o↵ering a new, high-certainty channel on an existing business-to-consumer platform such as Taobao and eBay. In the second paper, we use game theoretical models to study how software firms should determine their anti-piracy e↵orts and product prices when the network e↵ect exists. In the third paper, we investigate a setting where heterogeneous healthcare providers (HPs) can join one or two competing HIEs (monopoly and duopoly case). We use a game theoretical model to investigate how HIEs should price the basic and value-added services to maximize their profits.
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2018
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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