Resale of used products may shrink the new-product market and create the cannibalization problem. This problem is exacerbated in the digital goods market because copies of digital goods can be perfect substitutes of the original. Many digital goods/service producers take advantage of technology...

Live-streaming advertising in e-commerce is soaring. Both Amazon and Alibaba have employedthis novel marketing model to engage consumers by sequentially exhibiting differentproducts through live-streaming videos. In this paper we adopt a mechanism design frameworkto model live-streaming...

In this paper, we investigate the root cause for large MSMEs finance gap. We advance five propositions for the mechanism through which the distorted financial structure generated by a comparative-advantage-defying strategy leads to large MSMEs finance gap. We then use panel data from 115...