This paper examines the potential economic spillover effects of a home sharing platform---Airbnb---on the growth of a complimentary local service---restaurants. By circumventing traditional land-use regulation and providing access to underutilized inventory, Airbnb is attracting visitors of a...

The contribution of online reputation - customarily hosted by third-party digital platforms - to a firm's competitive advantage is yet to be measured and characterized. Because this quality signal is driven by the crowd, questions arise about the characteristics necessary for other consumers to...

Amid recent calls for equity, many tech firms have initiated policies to provide monetary and educational support for minority entrepreneurs on their platforms. These firms' digital platforms also have mechanism design choices at their disposal to augment such efforts and further promote...