In a crowdsourcing contest, innovation is outsourced by a firm to an open crowd that competes in generating innovative solutions. Given that the projects typically consist of multiple attributes, how should the firm optimally design a crowdsourcing contest for such a project? We consider two...

We consider a two-sided market competition problem where two platforms compete in both supply and demand sides. We examine a variety of competition modes and study the impact of precommitment on the equilibrium outcomes. By comparing three types of competitions: simultaneous price and wage...