Online market places have an unprecedented power of bringing together a large number of buyers and sellers and aggregating information. Despite its benefits, this scale of aggregation of private information may bring about adverse effects that can cause inefficiencies, which can be ignored by...

Group buying events, in which the unit price for a good or service declines with higher number of customer sign ups, are increasingly becoming popular for retailing goods and services, especially in emerging markets. This paper theoretically and empirically studies consumer equilibrium, pricing,...

In recent years decentralized Ride Hailing companies have gained significant market share at the expense of vertically-integrated Taxi companies. Yet, Ride Hailing companies also experienced substantial setbacks, and it is not clear what the endgame between these two competing business models...