I analyze a dynamic model of concurrent bargaining in which multiple long-lived prospective buyers compete to trade with a long-lived seller over two periods. The paper investigates how offer confidentiality and buyer participation affect bargaining dynamics within this framework. When buyers’...

Automation technology has grown at a rapid pace recently. One technology growing rapidly right now is the Internet of Things or IoT. IoT consists of many devices, and one of the IoT devices that are popular right now is called the smart home device. This smart home device can save the user's...

Competition agencies and many other related policy and regulatory authorities and regimes on for example consumer protection, product safety, privacy, conventional and digital financial services, the environment, healthcare, and occupational health and safety are now paying much greater...

We develop a general equilibrium model of informative advertising to examine the implications of privacy regulations on consumer welfare, focusing on its utilitarian aspects. In our model, firms reach consumers by placing ads on an advertising platform. Privacy regulations affect ad...

We build a two-country general equilibrium model to explore the effects of cross-border data flows in the short run. Data are generated as the byproducts of consumption, and can be used both domestically and in foreign countries at the expense of potential privacy issues, correspondingly....

We show that by lending to merchants and monitoring them, an e-commerce platform can price-discriminate between merchants with high and low financial constraints: the platform offers credit priced below market rates and designed to select merchants with lower capital or collateral while...

Central bank digital currency (“CBDC”) is a crucial FinTech development which aspires to overhaul the current payment system. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, CBDCs' promises to reduce personal contact, facilitate socially desirable use of money, and initiate more targeted monetary...