Industry commitments include inventory planning and control, aiming to find the most
appropriate purchasing and managing inventory policies by examining the conditions and …

With the advent of information technology, online platforms have become an vital
intermediary for acquiring green information and purchasing green products. This study …

On an online shopping platform, for users on one side (buyers or sellers), the affiliation
decisions depend not only on their stand-alone valuations for the platform's services, but …

Over the past 5 years, platforms have emerged as a key organizational concept, notably due
to the ubiquity of digital. This chapter aims to:(1) analyse the key economic challenges …

The study investigates the hybrid role of a monopoly platform that serves as an intermediary
to its two distinct sides, while also offering its own house brand products to its consumers …

The paper evaluates the contracting problem between a platform and a seller under
information asymmetry where the seller holds private information about his/her cost for …

We present a general and tractable oligopoly model of multi-sided platforms with
endogenous side and platform choices of heterogeneous end-users, considering any mix of …

We study the effects of three forms of taxation—a tax levied on the platform's revenue, an ad
valorem tax on consumers' access fees and tax imposed on per‐transaction fees of sellers …

Purpose This paper aims to study the pricing strategies of an online trading platform with
indirect network externalities by considering heterogeneous trading behavior in the …

为了提高物流信息平台的竞争优势, 考虑平台主体之间演化关系, 探讨了物流信息平台增值服务
投资策略问题. 首先, 分析不同增值服务投资策略下的用户行为与特征, 建立用户效用函数和平台 …