Many sharing platforms facilitate on-demand service to their guests and allow guests to reserve assets ahead of service. On such platforms, ''hosts''- asset owners who rent their assets- inform the platform beforehand about their asset's availability by creating a ''listing." By doing so, the...

We study the problem of a cloud service provider (e.g., Amazon Web services) selling cloud services to a buyer (e.g., Uber) under congestion. Cloud congestion has received significant attention in recent years, leading to reduced service quality and a potential loss of customers (e.g., riders...

We study a two-sided marketplace with network effects, where buyers face congestion as they compete for the same resources the platform provides. To ease this congestion, the platform can exercise greater control on the marketplace or use pricing as a lever to limit the market size, thus...