Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with
traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as …

We explore spatial price discrimination in the context of a ride-sharing platform that serves a
network of locations. Riders are heterogeneous in terms of their destination preferences and …

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent
service providers (agents). This paper examines how two defining features of an on-demand …

We study optimal pricing strategies for ride-sharing platforms, such as Lyft, Sidecar, and
Uber. Analysis of pricing in such settings is complex: On one hand these platforms are two …

In a ride-sharing system, arriving customers must be matched with available drivers. These
decisions affect the overall number of customers matched, because they impact whether …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

We introduce a simple model of dynamic matching in networked markets, where agents
arrive and depart stochastically and the composition of the trade network depends …

Problem definition: We consider an intermediary's problem of dynamically matching demand
and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. Specifically, there are two …

Digital peer-to-peer marketplaces have increased the volume of trade in underutilized
assets. I use the setting of Airbnb to investigate transaction costs in these markets and the …

We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an
expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth …