This research studies the price competition between a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, who adopts a subscription-based pricing scheme, and an on-premises vendor, who uses a perpetual license scheme. The SaaS vendor decides its subscription price, and the on-premises software vendor decides...

Two sellers trade vertically and horizontally differentiated goods on a platform which charges them a commission fee. Some consumers are naive and do not observe, or consider, add-on prices until after they commit to buying the base good from a seller. We address the following questions. First,...

To entice customers to purchase, sellers on online platforms often misrepresent the quality of their goods/services, e.g., by manipulating consumer opinion. We analyze an oligopoly where sellers, heterogeneous in their true quality, compete by jointly choosing their prices and the extent of...