Objective: The main objective of this article is to identify social media (SM) usage in communication between individual consumers and producers in different countries. The considerations in the article are focused on consumers’ perspective. Research Design & Methods: The article takes a...

In this research I empirically study the effects of information acquisition by investors or traders on analysts' forecast bias. Based on the theoretical literature on sell-side analysts, I argue that forecast bias is correlated to investors' information gathering, in two opposite directions. On...

This paper investigates a contest in information revelation between firms that seek to persuade consumers by revealing positive own information and negative information about the rival. In the face of limited bandwidth, firms are forced to make a trade-off between disclosing their own positive...

Spanish Abstract: La gestión administrativa y académica de las organizaciones educativas ha evolucionado en la comprensión de aspectos comunicacionales que generen relacionamiento. Este estudio compara las tendencias entre las prácticas comunicacionales y las estrategias de mercadeo...

Should firms that apply machine learning algorithms in their decision making make their algorithms transparent? Despite increasing calls for algorithmic transparency, most firms have kept their algorithms opaque citing potential gaming by users that may negatively affect the algorithm's...

This article presents a dynamic pricing model of a retailer selling an inventory, accounting for consumer behavior. The authors propose an optimal control model, maximizing the intertemporal profit with consumers sensitive to the selling price and to a reference price. The optimal dynamic...

This article presents a dynamic pricing model of a retailer selling an inventory, accounting for consumer behavior. The authors propose an optimal control model, maximizing the intertemporal profit with consumers sensitive to the selling price and to a reference price. The optimal dynamic...

If producers have more information than consumers about goods’ attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...

This paper draws concepts from the book The Mind Share Market: The Power of an Alternative Currency, by the same author. It expands the foundational definition of its predecessor "Freemium: Attributes of an Emerging Business Model" and focuses on the challenges of the model while introducing...