Help-and-Haggle: Social Commerce Through Randomized, All-or-Nothing Discounts

The authors are grateful to department editor Elena Katok, an anonymous associate editor, and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback in the review process that has greatly improved the paper. An earlier version of this work was recognized as a runner-up of the 2022 Conference on Information Systems and Technology Best Paper Award; a finalist of the 2022 INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section Best Working Paper Competition; and a finalist of the 2022 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award. The paper was also selected into the 2023 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group Day and accepted into the 24th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Economics and Computation. We thank Yihao Ang, Hang Jiang, and Chong Luck Ryan Kor for their research assistance.