Most digital content distributed in information-goods platforms encounter the threat of online piracy. Strategic pricing, technology-based platform protection, and deterrent enforcement such as legal and moral measures are viewed as antidotes to piracy. We examine the effects of deterrent...

More and more marketplace platforms choose to use the data gathered from consumers (e.g., customer search terms, demographics) to provide a data analytics service for third-party sellers, both encouraging innovations and improving the operations of the latter. Through adopting the data analytics...

Mixed two-sided platforms suffer from the dilemma related to the platform’s regulation of user-generated content (UGC). Strict regulation may weaken the willingness of users to continuously generate new content, whereas loose regulation may lead to massive low-quality content shares. This...