Since the development of the Internet, thousands of manufacturers have been referring consumers visiting their websites to some or all of their retailers. Through a model with one manufacturer and two heterogeneous retailers, we investigate whether it is an equilibrium for the manufacturer to...

The problem studied in this paper is a predigestion of the decision faced by online retailers (etailers) that advertise on publisher or comparison-shopping websites. An etailer may sell its product not only through its online and bricks-and-mortar stores, but also through the websites of one or...

In this paper, we forecast Bitcoin's returns and return jumps using a self-exciting process embedded in a stochastic volatility model. We show the existence of the jump clustering feature, which varies depending on the frequency of the data. In an out-of-sample setting, we use a particle filter...