The sharing economy, a term we use to refer to business models built around on-demand
access to products and services mediated by online platforms that match many small …

Economic growth in many countries is increasingly driven by successful startups that
operate as online platforms. These success stories have motivated us to define and classify …

This paper investigates the optimal pricing strategies of domestic/imported electric vehicle
manufacturer and the government's optimal decisions by developing the game-theoretic …

Two‐sided platforms have become omnipresent. In this context, firms compete not only for
customers but also for flexible self‐scheduling workers who can work for multiple platforms …

Recently, electric vehicles (EVs) have been introduced to the ride-sourcing market, raising
interesting issues on the interaction between EVs and the ride-sourcing market. This study …

Problem definition: Mobile communications technologies and online platforms have enabled
large-scale consumer-to-consumer (C2C) sharing of their underutilized products. This paper …

Crowdsourced delivery and other sharing economy platforms attract freelance workers by
offering them flexibility in scheduling their own work hours. Those platforms, however, have …

We develop a two-period, five-stage game model with sharing utility to analyze how a
manufacturer competes with a sharing economy platform that facilitates sharing of the …

We investigate an on-demand ridesharing system consisting of a ridesharing platform,
multiple drivers, and multiple passengers. We begin by analyzing a choice problem for a …

Problem definition: We empirically study the market for ride-hailing services. In particular we
explore the following questions:(i) How do the two-sided market and prices jointly form in …