Pricing Game of Online Display Advertisement Publishers

Authors

Md. Tanveer Ahmed, University at Buffalo
Changhyun Kwon, University at BuffaloFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2012

Keywords

online display advertising, optimal pricing, nash equilibrium, newsvendor problem

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.01.008

Abstract

We consider online display advertisement publishers who maximize the revenue by optimal pricing in an oligopoly setting. Each publisher interacts with others through setting cost-per-impression (CPM) that affects the demand for everyone. Using the pseudoconcavity of the objective function, we prove that a unique best response Nash equilibrium exists for each publisher. We also consider the sensitivity of the publisher while other publishers changes their CPM. In both cases, the best response of the publisher depends entirely on her current best response CPM. We provide an algorithm for finding the equilibrium and illustrate by numerical examples.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

European Journal of Operational Research, v. 219, issue 2, p. 477-487

Scholar Commons Citation

Ahmed, Md. Tanveer and Kwon, Changhyun, "Pricing Game of Online Display Advertisement Publishers" (2012). Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 27.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/egs_facpub/27