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Intermediation in a Sharing Economy: Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Rent Extraction by Weber, Thomas A.

“…A key impediment to sharing is a lender's concern about damage to a lent item due to unobservable actions by a renter, usually resulting in moral hazard. This…”
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Product Pricing in a Peer-to-Peer Economy by Weber, Thomas A.

“…The emergence of a collaborative economy has been driven by advances in information technology that allow consumers to borrow and rent goods among peers on a…”
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How to Market Smart Products: Design and Pricing for Sharing Markets by Weber, Thomas A.

“…This paper introduces joint product design and non-linear pricing in the context of sharing markets. Product ecosystems enable user sensing, setting the stage…”
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Price discrimination with robust beliefs by Han, Jun, Weber, Thomas A.

“…•Robust price-discrimination framework based on relative regret.•A simple representation of robustness index as worst-case performance ratio is given.•Optimal…”
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Smart Products for Sharing by Weber, Thomas A.

“…Sharing markets create mutual insurance for consumers who are unsure about their future needs for goods, thus rendering products more valuable both before and…”
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Relatively robust decisions by Weber, Thomas A.

“…It is natural for humans to judge the outcome of a decision under uncertainty as a percentage of an ex-post optimal performance. We propose a robust…”
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Minimum-error classes for matching parts by Weber, Thomas A.

“…This paper examines the binning of two types of parts with random characteristics, so that a componentwise monotonic evaluation criterion exhibits a minimum…”
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Optimal matching of random parts by Weber, Thomas A.

“…This paper examines the minimization of the cost for an expected random production output, given an assembly of finished goods from two random inputs, matched…”
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Carbon markets and technological innovation by Weber, Thomas A., Neuhoff, Karsten

“…This paper examines the effects of firm-level innovation in carbon-abatement technologies on optimal cap-and-trade schemes with and without price controls. We…”
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The advent of the sharing culture and its effect on product pricing by Razeghian, Maryam, Weber, Thomas A.

“…•Overlapping-generations model of dynamic selling with sharing market.•Peer-trade propensity determines seller’s intertemporal consumption bundling.•Cultural…”
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Dynamic Credit-Collections Optimization by Chehrazi, Naveed, Glynn, Peter W, Weber, Thomas A

“…Based on a dynamic model of the stochastic repayment behavior exhibited by delinquent credit-card accounts in the form of a self-exciting point process, a bank…”
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Special Section: Reevaluating Markets for Information by Kauffman, Robert J., Weber, Thomas A.

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Quantifying endogeneity of cryptocurrency markets by Mark, Michael, Sila, Jan, Weber, Thomas A.

“…We construct a 'reflexivity' index to measure the activity generated endogenously within a market for cryptocurrencies. For this purpose, we fit a univariate…”
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Dynamic Valuation of Delinquent Credit-Card Accounts by Chehrazi, Naveed, Weber, Thomas A.

“…This paper introduces a dynamic model of the stochastic repayment behavior exhibited by delinquent credit-card accounts. Based on this model, we construct a…”
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Global Optimization on an Interval by Weber, Thomas A.

“…This paper provides expressions for solutions of a one-dimensional global optimization problem using an adjoint variable which represents the available…”
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Special Section: Improving New Digital Market Mechanisms by Kauffman, Robert J., Weber, Thomas A.

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On the (non-)equivalence of IRR and NPV by Weber, Thomas A.

“…The internal rate of return (IRR) is generally considered inferior to the net present value (NPV) as a tool for evaluating and ranking projects, despite its…”
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Special Section: The Economics of Sharing and Information Security by Kauffman, Robert J., Weber, Thomas A.

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A linear-quadratic Gaussian approach to dynamic information acquisition by Weber, Thomas A., Nguyen, Viet Anh

“…•Closed-form solution to dynamic information acquisition problem in Bayesian setting.•System “criticality” determines the nature of the optimal threshold…”
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The Question of Ownership in a Sharing Economy by Weber, Thomas A.

“…The sharing of durable goods in a dynamic ownership economy is attractive, since it has the potential to realize gains from trade via short-term transfers of…”
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