Thick two-sided matching platforms, such as the room-rental market, face the challenge of
showing relevant objects to users to reduce search costs. Many platforms use ranking …

Online marketplaces increasingly act as intermediaries in labor, housing, dating, and other
markets where traders match with each other. These marketplaces use novel data …

As a two-sided marketplace, Airbnb brings together hosts who own listings for rent with
prospective guests from around the globe. Results from a guest's search for listings are …

Digital matching marketplaces are characterized by user heterogeneity, limited capacity, and
dynamic market clearing. These features create spillovers between users. For example, an …

We address the problem of optimal pricing in two-sided markets with platforms that facilitate
the exchange of services between freelance workers and customers. Often, such platforms …

Market thickness is a key parameter that can make or break a platform's business model.
Thicker markets can offer more opportunities for participants to meet and higher chances …

A Heavy Traffic Theory of Two-Sided Queues Page 1 A Heavy Traffic Theory of Two-Sided
Queues Sushil Mahavir Varma, Siva Theja Maguluri School of Industrial and Systems …

We study the recommender systems on the two-sided platforms. We find that the
machinelearning algorithms create congestion: they often generate recommendations that …

An increasing proportion of transactions in two-sided markets are being mediated by online
platforms. Presumably, agents choose to use online platforms because they have a lower …

Search ranking is a fundamental problem of crucial interest to major Internet companies,
including web search engines, content publishing websites and marketplaces. However …