ON PRICE CHOICE AT SELLING OF INFORMATION RESOURCES

Ivanova Olga S., Amelkin Sergei A., Tsirlin Anatoly M.

doi:10.17586/2226-1494-2015-15-3-517-524

2015 , VOLUME 15, NUMBER 3 ( May-June )

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doi: 10.17586/2226-1494-2015-15-3-517-524

ON PRICE CHOICE AT SELLING OF INFORMATION RESOURCES

O. S. Ivanova, S. A. Amelkin, A. M. Tsirlin

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For citation: Inanova O.S., Amelkin S.A., Tsirlin A.M. On price choice at selling of information resources. Scientific and Technical Journal of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, 2015, vol.15, no. 3, pp. 517–524.

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of the pricing policy determination in the company, selling information resource at the market. The problem of the optimal price determination for an information resource is solved depending on the time for the case when the seller-company has no competitors in the market, the market is saturated, and buyers are not able to further spread of the resource. Conditions for the optimal choice of information resource price have been obtained; the maximum possible income of the company has been calculated for linear demand function, and conditions, determining the duration and volume of sales, providing the maximum of average income of the company, have been obtained as well. The problem of optimal price choice is solved by macrosystem approach that has made it possible to reduce it to the isoperimetric kind. It is shown that the optimal price dependence on time for a linear demand function should provide a linearly increasing rate of sales. Conditions have been derived under which the sales proceedings for an information resource are positive, relationship is determined between volume of sales and timeline at which the average income during the sales reaches its maximum. The results are given in dimensionless form, thereby reducing the number of independent parameters. These results are usable for the pricing analysis of software and other information products.

Keywords: economic systems, demand function, information resources, necessary optimality conditions.

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