This research studies the price competition between a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, who adopts a subscription-based pricing scheme, and an on-premises vendor, who uses a perpetual license scheme. The SaaS vendor decides its subscription price, and the on-premises software vendor decides...

Most previous studies in price dispersion literature consider only the dispersion of post price. We build a model combining price dispersion with the associated sales, incorporating the dynamic update of online reputation in an Internet market. We identify buyer informativeness, which measures...

In online labor markets (OLMs), it is well known that platforms often enable bidders to list their skills to help employers assess their capability of completing a certain task. Given the wide range of projects in OLMs platforms, should bidders list more skills to match as many projects as...