Online sales platforms have grown substantially in recent years. These platforms assist
sellers to conduct sales, and in return, collect service fees from sellers. We study the fee …

Auctions have known considerable and continuous growth during the last decades due to
their interesting properties in price formation when the value of goods traded is not known or …

In a global market dominated by the mass production and consumption of branded goods,
an interest in craft products has become a growing trend among consumers (Walker, 2007) …

The majority of academic papers on the Internet auction design do not distinguish between
the auctioneer and the object owner, whereas nowadays leading Internet auction websites …

Matching theory and techniques from linear optimization are leveraged to solve three
problems. The first problem is that of clearing a market that encounters complementarities in …

We consider a multi-period auction with a seller who has a single object for sale, a large
population of potential buyers, and a mediator of the trade. The seller and every buyer have …

We consider a dynamic auction environment with a long-lived seller and short-lived buyers
mediated by a third party. A mediator has incomplete information about traders' values and …

Revenue seeking intermediaries and governments around the globe charge fees as a
function of the transaction price. In a setup with few buyers, one seller and two-sided private …

This dissertation studies online auctions and remanufacturing strategies. First, Chapter 2
investigates information variability impacts in auctions. Online eBay-like auctions often …

Due to specialization and division of labor, people began to trade with each other since most
of them concentrate on a small aspect of production, which raised the level of production …