Does uncertainty about future wholesale prices facilitate coordination? We address this question in the context of the Chilean retail-gasoline industry, where a policy intervention (Mepco) limited the week-to-week variation of wholesale prices. First, we show that Mepco caused a decrease in...

As climate change augurs longer wildfire seasons, safe, reliable, and competitive energy and communications markets depend on sound infrastructure and well-calibrated regulation. The humble wooden utility pole, first deployed in America in 1844 to extend telegraph service, forms the twenty-first...

This paper examines the effect of technological uncertainty on the optimal pricing and investment decisions in a two-sided market. A platform offers a basic good and a developer offers a complementary good. The performance of the complementary good is stochastic and is endogenously determined by...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the impact of risk perception on online purchase intention in e-commerce platforms.Design/Methodology/Approach – This research uses secondary data analysis and an archival study approach to investigate the impact of risk perception on online purchase...

By now, almost without exception, every business has an internet presence, and is likely engaged in e-commerce. What are the major risks perceived by those engaged in e-commerce and electronic payment systems? What potential risks, if they become reality, may cause substantial increases in...