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Position: The Pre/Post-Training Boundary Should Govern IP in Industry-Academia ML Collaborations
Dirk Bergemann, Soheil Ghili, Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
Industry-academia ML collaborations routinely fail to launch -- not for scientific reasons, but because academics must publish while companies must protect models trained on propri…
Pay-Per-Crawl Pricing for AI: The LM-Tree Agent
Richard Archer, Soheil Ghili, Nima Haghpanah
As AI systems shift from directing users to content toward consuming it directly, publishers need a new revenue model: charging AI crawlers for content access. This model, called p…
Second-degree Price Discrimination: Theoretical Analysis, Experiment Design, and Empirical Estimation
Soheil Ghili, K. Sudhir, Nitish Jain +1
We build on theoretical results from the mechanism design literature to analyze empirical models of second-degree price discrimination (2PD). We show that for a random-coefficients…
An Empirical Analysis of Optimal Nonlinear Pricing in Business-to-Business Markets
Soheil Ghili, Russ Yoon
In continuous-choice settings, consumers decide not only on whether to purchase a product, but also on how much to purchase. Thus, firms optimize a full price schedule rather than…
Spatial Distribution of Supply and the Role of Market Thickness: Theory and Evidence from Ride Sharing
Soheil Ghili, Vineet Kumar
This paper studies the effects of economies of density in transportation markets, focusing on ridesharing. Our theoretical model predicts that (i) economies of density skew the sup…
A Characterization for Optimal Bundling of Products with Non-Additive Values
Soheil Ghili
This paper studies optimal bundling of products with non-additive values. Under monotonic preferences and single-peaked profits, I show a monopolist finds pure bundling optimal if…