Most digital content distributed in information-goods platforms encounter the threat of online piracy. Strategic pricing, technology-based platform protection, and deterrent enforcement such as legal and moral measures are viewed as antidotes to piracy. We examine the effects of deterrent...

Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, one of the most successful technology-enabled initiatives in the fintech revolution, has drastically changed the way individual investors and borrowers meet and transact. While prior research has found herding among investors at the listing level, such social...

We have witnessed an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) between two-sided digital platforms, generally involving a unidirectional resource transfer policy from the acquired to the acquiring platform. This scenario may incur an asymmetric network effect that has not been explored...

To promote charitable giving, donation-based crowdfunding platforms adopted match offers, whereby leadership donors commit to matching the contribution of other donors at a given rate. While match offers have great potential to improve fundraising performance, a lot remains unknown about how and...

In this paper, we investigate the optimal reward scheme design problem for online crowdfunding projects where project backers' reward item selection is assumed to follow the multinomial logit choice model. Our model shows that project creator's effective marginal profit from each reward item is...

Reward-based crowdfunding platforms are best known to facilitate the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Entrepreneurs seek money from the backers to kick off their projects in exchange for rewards. While the competition among the projects to get more supporters grow,...