Whether consumers are aware of potentially adverse product effects is key to private and social incentives to disclose information about undesirable product characteristics. In a monopoly model with a mix of aware and unaware consumers, a larger share of unaware consumers makes information...

Live-streaming advertising in e-commerce is soaring. Both Amazon and Alibaba have employedthis novel marketing model to engage consumers by sequentially exhibiting differentproducts through live-streaming videos. In this paper we adopt a mechanism design frameworkto model live-streaming...

In this paper, we investigate the optimal dynamic auction design for the display advertising industry. Currently, display advertising is sold through two markets side-by-side. In the traditional guaranteed market, the publisher commits to deliver a pre-specified number of impressions within a...