Platform marketplaces can potentially steer buyers to certain sellers by recommending or guaranteeing those sellers …. Money-back guarantees--which create a direct financial stake for the platform in seller performance--might be particularly … effective at steering, as they align buyer and platform interests in creating a good match. We report the results of an …

rather than an increase in activity on the platform. We also find that the effect is not only driven by the direct …

differential for 142 other popular brands. Third, shortly after the EU designated Amazon a "gatekeeper" platform in September 2023 …

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n … long-lived, users suffer because of behavioral manipulation. Finally, as the number of products increases, the platform can …

-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb … and VRBO. Our results suggest that platform competition sometimes dampens a platform wide pro-guest rule and sometimes … reinforces it, often with heterogeneous effects on different hosts. This implies that platform competition does not necessarily …

increasingly central role in tech companies - tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the …