There is a seller who has an object to sell to a single buyer. The seller’s value for the object is c. The buyer’s valuation, v, is distributed according to the CDF F supported on (−∞, 1]. Let μ denote the expected valuation, that is, ∫ 1 0 vdF (v) = μ. The buyer observes a signal s about v. The joint distribution of v and s is common knowledge. The seller then gives a take-it-or-leave-it price...

A seller of a nondurable good repeatedly faces a buyer who is privately informed about the position of his demand curve. The seller offers a price in each period. The buyer chooses a quantity given the price. The quantity demanded reveals information about the buyer. An equilibrium is characterized with the feature that buyer types separate completely in the first period. This equilibrium uniqu...

This study explores how social influence approaches alter buyer–seller swift guanxi, trust in the seller and repurchase intention when considering of buyer dependence. Based on results an online survey three cities Taiwan, we empirically test research model using partial least squares analysis. We found that dependence exerts different but positive effects each approach usage only identificatio...

We study a dynamic buyer-seller problem in which the good is information and there are no property rights. The potential buyer is reluctant to pay for information whose value to him is uncertain, but the seller cannot credibly convey its value to the buyer without disclosing the information itself. Information comes as divisible hard evidence. We show how and why the seller can appropriate a su...

 Buyer-seller watermarking protocols are designed to deter clients from illegally distributing copies of digital content. To be efficient and fair is important to buyer-seller protocols. In this paper, an anonymous and interactive buyer-seller protocol is proposed, which is designed to be impartial and efficient. To solve the unbinding problem and the buyers’ right problem, operations of water...

The rapid development of Internet and e-commerce technologies has led to the exponential growth of online markets in the past decade. Given that these markets are sustained by a community of buyers and sellers, an increasing number of studies have examined online buyer-seller exchange relationships. Whereas most of the existing research is focused on mechanisms to facilitate buyer-seller intera...

A buyer-seller protocol for content rights protection deters dishonest buyers from illegally distributing bought content. This can be achieved by giving the seller the capability to trace and identify these buyers, while also allowing the seller to prove illegal acts to a third party. Many protocols have been proposed, one of the most recent being the protocol of Ahmed et al. in the EURASIP Jou...

Multi agent system (MAS) model has been extensively used in the different tasks of E-Commerce such as customer relation management (CRM), negotiation and brokering. The objective of this paper is to evaluate a seller agent’s various cognitive parameters like capability, trust, and desire. After selecting a best seller agent from ordering queue, it applies negotiation strategies to find the most...

We study a buyer-seller problem in which the good is information and there are no property rights. The buyer is reluctant to pay for information whose value he does not know, but the seller cannot credibly reveal this value without disclosing the information itself. Information comes as divisible hard evidence. We show how the seller can appropriate a substantial fraction of the value through g...