We examine competition between two-sided platforms in a sharing economy using ride sharing as an example. In this economy, drivers self-schedule their supply based on the wage they receive. The platforms compete for drivers as well as riders. To attract drivers, platforms have used diverse wage...

We examine two-sided adverse selection in a sharing economy context where a platform matches service providers with consumers and both providers and consumers derive heterogeneous payoffs depending on whom they are matched with. Unlike the more prevalent unilateral review scheme in which only...

We examine coopetition between a ride-sharing platform and a car-rental firm. A distinctive aspect of this context is that the platform operates under the sharing-economy model where the supply is self-scheduled by drivers depending on the wage, whereas the car-rental firm operates under the...