Browsing Faculty of Business by Author "Özener, Başak Altan"

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Client-server versus peer-to-peer

Özener, Başak Altan; Sunay, Mehmet Oğuz (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, 2016)

This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a video streaming service in a peer-to-peer network structure under different payment mechanisms: pay as you watch and pay upfront. We calculate a uniform, feasible ...
Damaged durable goods, upgrades, and the coase conjecture

Özener, Başak Altan (Mohr Siebeck, 2018-12)

This study analyzes a damaged-goods market for a perfectly durable good in an infinite-horizon, discrete-time game. We characterize Markov perfect equilibria of this game under different buyer upgrade possibilities as a ...
Dynamic moral hazard with sequential tasks

Özener, Başak Altan (Elsevier, 2019-10)

We study a sequential agency problem with hidden actions in an infinite horizon dynamic setting. The principal has a project that requires completion of two sequential tasks where the predecessor must be finished before ...
Optimal peer-to-peer network for streaming multimedia broadcast

Özener, Başak Altan; Sunay, M. O. (Elsevier, 2020-11)

This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a streaming video service in a peer-to-peer network structure as a function of the number of active peers, a common service value, a common discount factor, and ...
Price and quality decisions of a service provider under heterogeneous demand

Özener, Başak Altan; Demirciler, Pelin Atahan (Bogaziçi Üniversitesi, 2019)

A monopolist service provider's quality and price decisions are analyzed in a vertically differentiated market where customers demand different quantities of a service. We find that depending on the relative sizes of the ...