KillerApps Micro: Type of goods
12/30/14
Free public goods with close to zero marginal cost could profit from partial excludability.
03/11/14
The peer-to-peer rental and sharing economy could lead to more efficient allocation of scarce resources and a cleaner economy.
09/11/07
Rising affluence and other social factors have led to the emergence of the dog care industry.
02/27/07
How on-the-air radio is indirectly funded affects the quality of radio programming as a public good.
06/22/06
Starbucks commands premium prices for its lifestyle coffee because of its status cachet.
06/22/06
The successful emergence of once-slighted digital cameras has reshuffled the cast of major players in the photography business.
06/22/06
Price hike is difficult to sustain in commodity business with many competitors.
06/22/06
Durability of capital goods poses challenge to producers in a mature market.
06/22/06
Many companies earn more revenues from selling replacement parts than selling the complementary products.
06/22/06
Caesarean sections, which are preferred for their predictability, are more prevalent when reimbursement policy favors their practice even when they are not medically necessary.
06/22/06
The popularity of iPods locks in customer loyalty to the closed iPod-iTunes portable music playing system.
01/14/06
The creation of a new market typically involves the simultaneous development of interlocking parts. Sacrificing the short-term gain for at least one part is often necessary to overcome initial supplier or buyer inertia.
09/07/05
Supply may induce its own demand where a third party practically guarantees reimbursement of usage.
09/03/05
Viagra and other similar western impotence remedies might have affected the demand for and prices of traditional substitutes.
02/08/05
Controlling the distribution of products and the provision of after-sale service considerably reduce free riding of online shoppers on offline stores for product information.
06/07/04
Uncertain property rights will lead to either underinvestment or unnecessary disputes.
02/16/01
Far from increasing consumer surplus, falling prices for luxury goods such as freshwater pearls due to overproduction reduce both consumer surplus and producer profit.
08/16/00
Cyril Chang
Individual health insurers may be reluctant to aggressively offer smoking cessation treatment to their insured members because of high turnover of treated patients to other health insurers
04/14/00
Used cars are but one example of used goods that embody older environmentally unfriendly technology. Ideally, they should be deprived of a second life. But such capital punishment often creates hardship for people who must depend on such used goods for their livelihood.