This paper considers a dynamic duopoly market with strategic, price setting firms and an infinite set of fully rational, privately informed consumers who enter the market sequentially. I show that there exists a sequential equilibrium in which prices converge to their realized product qualities...

This paper examines the welfare effects of informational intermediation. A (shortlived) seller sets the price of a product that is sold through a (long-lived) informational intermediary. The intermediary can disclose information about the product to consumers, earns a fixed percentage of the...

Besides their role in reducing frictions and facilitating trade, two-sided platforms increasingly collect and process data, e.g., supply and demand forecasts, that can further affect market outcomes. This paper studies how a platform may choose to disclose its information about future demand to...