Remedies often get overlooked in discussions of antitrust litigation, treated almost as an afterthought. When remedies have been part of the antitrust debate the focus has often been on an after-the-fact assessment of their effectiveness, or on the general question whether there should be a...

There is widespread concern that dominant platforms may be undermining competition by discriminating against rivals in adjacent markets, such as by refusing to let rival sellers use their platforms or by engaging in “self-preferencing.” Such acts fall within a category of unilateral conduct...

We consider service competition between two platforms, who are assumed to be farsighted, i.e., they consider the chains of reactions following their initial deviation. We first investigate the one-sided competition where the supply-side capacities of two platforms are fixed and then proceed to...

In this study, we investigate the interaction between an online platform’s information sharing strategy and its business model choice in a supply chain with two competing manufacturers both selling through a common online platform under demand uncertainty. The online platform possesses private...

With the rise of big data technology, an online platform can easily gather customer information to engage in price discrimination and obtain additional profits. Whether to share information remains an unsolved strategy decision for the platform. We employ a game-theoretic model to characterize...

Certifications are an important signaling device for attenuating information asymmetry. This study examines their role on a Chinese online marketplace lending platform, which grants certifications to borrowers after they submit the necessary documents. Although the platform verifies the...

Mainstream arguments refer to gig work platforms such as ride-hailing, online taxis, and home-sharing as sharing economy platforms. However, this designation is philosophically just a paradox because there is no “true sharing economy” in the gig work platform business model. This paper...

The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. This paper investigates whether aggregation of content by a single platform encourages users to “skim” content or to investigate it in depth. We study a contract dispute that led a...

Using the event of uniformly implementing registration requirements in Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) industry, this paper evaluates the impact of fintech regulations and pays particular attention to the moderating effect of the too-big-to-fail (TBTF) perception. The results show that, even though...

This paper studies how labor flexibility and mobility induced by the gig economy, affects corporate investment, by exploiting the staggered entry of the leading online delivery platforms into different cities in China and across the globe. The results show that, following the entry of delivery...