We consider an entrepreneur who designs a reward-based crowdfunding campaign when
the campaign provides a signal about the future demand for the product and subsequent …

Blockchain-based platforms often rely on token-weighted voting (“τ-weighting”) to efficiently
crowdsource information from their users for a wide range of applications, including content …

Crowdfunding is quickly emerging as an alternative to traditional methods of funding new
products. In a crowdfunding campaign, a seller solicits financial contributions from a crowd …

Many kinds of research has suggested that innovation is positively linked to business
performance and that it acts as an intermediary between organizational variables and …

Reward‐based crowdfunding is a form of innovative financing that allows project creators to
raise funds from potential backers to start their ventures. A crowdfunding project is …

Many online platforms offer time-locked sales campaigns, whereby products are sold at fixed
prices for prespecified lengths of time. Platforms often display some information about …

Motivated by the challenges faced by firms entering an unknown market, we study a
strategic investment problem in a duopoly setting. The favorableness of the market is …

In the context of subscription-based services, many technologies improve over time, and
service providers can provide increasingly powerful service upgrades to their customers but …

This paper studies a class of ranking and selection problems faced by a company that wants
to identify the most preferred product out of a finite set of alternatives when consumer …

Problem definition: We study a special form of group buying: the group buying succeeds
only if the number of sign-ups reaches a preset threshold, with no duration constraint …