, absent regulations, platforms maximize profits through price customization, link the latter to structural elasticities, and … online shopping, ad-exchanges, and media platforms. …

This research examines the determinants of project success on crowdfunding platforms within a competitive context. We …

I study a tradeoff between innovation and investor protection on crowdfunding platforms. Informing investors about the …

practices, we show how platforms maximize profits by offering menus of matching plans defined by (a) a baseline configuration … unmediated. The analysis has implications for ad-exchanges, media platforms, cable TV, business-to-business platforms, and large …