Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Tauman, Yair | Dubey, Pradeep | Brusco, Sandro | Sen, Debapriya.
Date
2015-08-01
Keywords
Economics | Online Auction
Department
Department of Economics.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77431
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
A typical fee structure of an auction website is a combination of two fees collected from sellers: listing fee and transaction fee. Listing fee is a fixed amount charged when inserting an item onto the website. Transaction fee is a certain percentage of the selling price and is only charged when a success sale is made. I analyze the optimal fee structure for a profit-maximizing website which provides a platform for many heterogeneous buyers and sellers to transact their products. The results suggest that the optimal listing fee is always positive. The optimal transaction fee is positive only when there is multiply products. | 74 pages
Recommended Citation
Xu, Zhen, "Optimal Fees for Sales Online" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3246.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3246