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作者：Lahiri, Atanu; Dey, Debabrata
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：That versioning can be effective for information goods is well known. In particular, related literature shows that when consumers underestimate a product, it is often better for the manufacturer to offer a base version of the product along with the fully featured version. This is because the base version lets consumers discover their true valuations, allowing the manufacturer to set a high price for the full version. This finding is also consistent with broader literature in economics, which c...
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作者：Bichler, Martin; Fux, Vladimir; Goeree, Jacob
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：Combinatorial exchanges that allow for package offers to address nonconvexities in demand or supply typically employ linear and anonymous prices because they are simple, tractable, and fair. Despite their prevalence, linear anonymous prices do not necessarily correspond to Walrasian competitive equilibrium prices in such settings, and their impact is not well understood. This paper is the first to analyze the effect of different pricing rules on the efficiency of combinatorial exchanges, using...
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作者：Kitchens, Brent; Kumar, Anuj; Pathak, Praveen
作者单位：University of Virginia; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We study the impact of electronic markets on small, boutique firms selling presence goods or services-goods or services that must be consumed at the selling firm's location. These firms have recently begun to compete on electronic markets by selling goods and services through local daily deal sites, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. We extract publicly available activity and spatial information from Groupon, LivingSocial, Google Maps, and Flickr to construct a unique panel data set to study da...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The internal architecture of apps has yet to receive attention in platform studies, which predominantly study apps' platform-facing, external architecture. We develop a theory of how the interplay between an app's internal and external architecture shape its ability to leverage the platform to outcompete rival apps. Primary and archival data spanning four years from 618 BlackberryOS apps show how internal architecture's complementarity with external architecture influences an app's competitive...
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作者：Yuan, Shuai; Das, Sanjukta; Ramesh, R.; Qiao, Chunming
作者单位：Brock University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：Service Level Agreements (SLA) for cloud services entail complex trade-offs between interrelated variables such as price, penalty, and service availability (uptime) guarantee, with resource management strategies affecting fulfillment of the SLA. In this study, we address three key components of the SLA-based cloud resource management and pricing problem, from the service-provider's perspective: (1) availability-aware backup resource provisioning; (2) price-penalty schedule determination; and (...
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作者：Zimmermann, Steffen; Herrmann, Philipp; Kundisch, Dennis; Nault, Barrie R.
作者单位：University of Innsbruck; University of Paderborn; University of Calgary
摘要：Consumer ratings play a decisive role in purchases by online shoppers. Although the effects of the average and the number of consumer ratings on future product pricing and demand have been studied with some conclusive results, the effects of the variance of these ratings are less well understood. We develop a model where we decompose the variance of consumer ratings into two sources: taste differences about search and experience attributes of a durable good, and quality differences among insta...
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作者：Li, Lusi; Chen, Jianqing; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Recommender systems that inform consumers about their likely ideal products have become the cornerstone of e-commerce platforms that sell products from competing manufacturers. Using a model of an electronic marketplace in which two competing manufacturers sell their products through a common retail platform, we study the effect of recommender systems on the retail platform, manufacturers, consumer surplus, and social welfare. In our setting, consumers are differentiated with respect to their ...
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作者：Khern-am-nuai, Warut; Kannan, Karthik; Ghasemkhani, Hossein
作者单位：McGill University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Firms have considered various forms of incentives for writing reviews, including the use of extrinsic rewards to attract reviewers. Building on this literature, we study the implications of monetary incentives on online reviews in the context of a natural experiment, where one review platform suddenly began offering monetary incentives for writing reviews. We refer to this as the treated platform. Along with data from Amazon.com and using the difference-in-differences approach, we compare the ...
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作者：Qiu, Liangfei; Shi, Zhan (Michael); Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Recently, mobile applications have offered users the option to share their location information with friends. Using data from a major location-based social networking application in China, we estimate an empirical model of restaurant discovery and observational learning. The unique feature of repeat customer visits in the data allows us to examine observational learning in trials and repeats and to separate it from non-informational confounding mechanisms, such as homophily, using a novel test...
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作者：Kumar, Naveen; Qiu, Liangfei; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：In the past decade, we have witnessed the growing importance of management responses to online reviews on digital platforms. In this study, we examine the impact of online management responses on business performance and their spillover effect on nearby businesses. By adopting multiple causal identification strategies to address the issue of self-selected responses, we find that the responses by a business owner play a significant role in the performance of the focal business as well as in the...
