ONLINE MARKETPLACES: ECONOMICS AND OPERATIONS

IAC2022 Volume 20

Guangwen Kong, Volume Co-editor

Ming Hu, Volume Co-editor

Garrett van Ryzin, Volume Co-editor

Nicholas G. Hall, Editor

An online marketplace may refer to an online platform that enables individuals or small entities as buyers and sellers to “transact” effectively and efficiently or a market model that allows sharing of access to goods and services. Examples of online marketplaces include e-commerce retailers such as Amazon as well as the emerging gig-economy platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and Instacart. An important role played by such a platform is to facilitate the matching between demand and supply on both sides of the market. The intermediary role of a platform brings many research opportunities and novel business practices. In this collection, we curate recent works in this area.