Activating self-scheduling workers on on-demand platforms when services are most needed is challenging because of a lack of cooperation between workers. To align workers' interests with the platform's profit-driven goals, various ride-sharing and food delivery platforms have recently embraced...

Benefiting from blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) can replicate most financial activities in traditional financial markets. Among various DeFi, Lending Protocols (LPs) allow users to borrow and lend tokens, which resembles banks in DeFi. In this paper, we investigate illiquidity risks of...

Collecting and displaying product reviews written by consumers is a common practice for many retail websites. These websites, however, differ in their choice to reveal aggregate review statistics on the product list displayed while consumers browse or search to make initial product selections....

We investigate in a competitive setting the consequences of mobile targeting, the practice of firms setting prices based on consumers' real-time locations. A distinct market feature of mobile targeting is that a consumer could travel across different locations for an offer that minimizes his...

Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas other platform networks may comprise local clusters in which buyers primarily purchase...

This paper examines how information provided by online reviews influences firms’ pricing strategy for repeat purchase products. It is commonly understood that online reviews can reduce consumer uncertainty about product characteristics and, therefore, have the potential to increase product...