2015-16: a new online discount feature. Focusing on the hospitality and online booking platforms, we explore the role of …

On online platforms, consumers face an abundance of options that are displayed in the form of a position ranking. Only … options. For such platforms, we develop a two-stage sequential search model where in the first stage, the consumer … policy of a welfare-maximizing consumer. We then study how platforms with different objectives should rank products. We focus …

Economic growth in many countries is increasingly driven by successful startups that operate as online platforms. These … success stories have motivated us to define and classify various online platforms according to their business models. This … study discusses strategic and operational issues arising from five types of online platforms (resource sharing, matching …

E-commerce platforms can integrate with Facebook to let users directly comment on product pages using their Facebook … functions on online platforms and provides direct managerial implications to the practice …

Online platforms offer time-locked sales campaigns, whereby third-party vendors sell their products at a fixed price … for a pre-specified length of time. To alleviate customers' uncertainty about a product's value, platforms often display …

This book explores the regulatory options for digital platforms and data economies. The trade-offs between the market … aims to highlight the impact of digital platforms and to provide insight into the current policy debate. It is relevant to …

Despite the rising importance and economy-wide effects of online platforms, the paucity of cross-country comparable … the understanding of multi-sided online platforms in three main ways. First, we build a harmonised international dataset … of online platforms and their use across 43 OECD and G20 countries, covering the 2013-19 period and nine areas of …

Online platforms are considered as very powerful economic agents often tending to obtain oligopolistic or even …