Many online retailers provide real-time inventory availability information. Customers can learn from the inventory level and update their beliefs about product quality. Thus, consumer purchasing behavior may be impacted by the availability information. Based on a unique setting from Amazon...

This paper studies the strategy of sharing inventory information for a firm that sells two vertically differentiated products. The seller has private information on the aggregate inventory level and the inventory composition between two product variants. The seller credibly and discretionarily...

Market thickness, which measures the number of participants in a market, is a critical driver for platforms to grow and thrive. In food delivery platforms, market thickness entails the restaurant density in a geographic area (i.e., a regional market). We study the implications of restaurant...