Major Hollywood studios typically release new movies in North America in one of the two ways, wide release or platform release. In this paper, we investigate how release form affects the demand of a new movie after it is nationally released. In particular, we focus on movies for which the...

Online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have become increasingly popular. An interesting question is whether, once people become friends in these online social networks, they really influence each other. Although a stream of research has studied the social interaction effect, many of...

This article models interactions between basketball teams in order to estimate individual players’ offensive production. A theoretical model predicts that, in equilibrium, better offensive players will shoot more often and that all offensive players will average the same number of points per...

The daily deals platform has become an important format in the online-to-offline (O2O) business model. However, questions have been raised over whether merchants really benefit from participating in daily deals, with some evidence suggesting that a significant number of merchants are losing...

Ad fraud has serious consequences for brands. However, only limited theoretical works have addressed this topic, and empirical research is scarce. In this paper, we examine ad fraud behavior at different levels of vertical contractual structure. Using two unique data sets separately containing...

Online individual fundraising has been a prominent component of online charitable giving due to the low cost of online solicitation. While studies of offline charity have shown that solicitation under peer pressure leads to higher donation, it is unclear whether this fundraising effect still...