Motivated by ride-hailing marketplaces, we present a model of two-sided matching platforms that participate in a duopoly market with spatial frictions. Both platforms face disjoint streams of service requests, but they share the same resources on the supply side, i.e., suppliers multi-home. Due...

The likely arrival of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology in the near future has the potential to fundamentally change the transportation landscape. Due to the high cost of AV hardware, the most likely path to widespread use of AVs is via open platforms that can sustain high-utilization,...

Florian Dorn und Clemens Fuest, ifo Institut, stellen die Frage nach einer ökonomischen Begründung für das „Next-Generation-EU“-Programm. Eine direkte Wirkung des NGEU-Programms für die wirtschaftliche Stabilisierung in der aktuellen Krise sehen sie eher als begrenzt an. Vielmehr scheine...

We study a gig economy platform's problem of finding optimal compensation schemes when faced with workers who myopically base their participation decisions on limited information with respect to their earnings. The stylized model we consider captures two key, related features absent from prior...

Ride-hailing platforms update prices dynamically to efficiently balance supply and demand. But rapidly changing prices create incentives for riders to wait for high prices to drop. When supply builds up and prices do eventually drop, these patient customers may request en masse, causing a sharp...