We study an asymmetric competition problem of two ridesourcing platforms, one of which adopts a concentration strategy … operator. To quantify the system-wide impact of asymmetric competition in the ridesourcing market, we develop a bi …

information to agents on current competition levels. Disclosing competition reduces the perceived value of popular units, but, at … workers to internalize competition at the lead level and captures the equilibrium effect of such reaction to competition at …'s pricing policy. Using the estimated model, we conduct counterfactual analyses to study the impact of signaling competition on …

type of heterogeneity among agents, (3) the intensity of platform competition …