Public "Beta" launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...

One of the main reasons for poor state of education in developing countries is an inability to meet the heterogeneous learning needs of a large student population with constrained educational resources. We provide experimental evidence that computer-generated personalized homework can...

Delivery speed is an essential component of the service provided by online delivery platforms. Since improving delivery speed is expensive, platforms can give the appearance of faster delivery by showing a conservative estimate of the delivery duration when the consumer makes an order. We use...

Different mechanisms through which easier access to physical stores could affect customers’ online purchase behavior are not well understood in the literature. We use customer-level data of a large apparel retailer to estimate the treatment effect of store openings on the online purchase...

Classic economic theory asserts that full information transparency entails information symmetry and, thus, market efficiency in trading. We test if this theory still holds in a blockchain-enabled marketplace where full information transparency is accomplished via blockchain. We leverage the data...

The presence of an open source software community has provided firms with a non-monetary compensation dimension: the firm can substitute wages for the flexibility it gives its programmers to participate in open source projects. The problem for the software firm is to determine the optimal extent...

Public “Beta” launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...