2 papers
econ.GN2026
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…
econ.TH2025
Good Data and Bad Data: The Welfare Effects of Price Discrimination
Maryam Farboodi, Nima Haghpanah, Ali Shourideh
We study how a monopolist's use of consumer data for price discrimination affects welfare. To answer this question, we develop a model of market segmentation subject to residual un…