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Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability

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Management Science

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    The cities of Paris, London, Chicago, and New York (among many others) have set up bike-share systems to facilitate the use of bicycles for urban commuting. This paper estimates the impact of two facets of system performance on bike-share ridership: ...
Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage, and Social Welfare in the Sharing Economy

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Management Science

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    We describe an equilibrium model of peer-to-peer product sharing, or collaborative consumption, where individuals with varying usage levels make decisions about whether or not to own a homogeneous product. Owners are able to generate income from renting ...
Dynamic Pricing of Relocating Resources in Large Networks

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Management Science

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    Motivated by applications in shared vehicle systems, we study dynamic pricing of resources that relocate over a network of locations. Customers with private willingness to pay sequentially request to relocate a resource from one location to another, and a ...
Multistage Intermediation in Display Advertising

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M&SOM

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    Problem definition : We consider a setting where online advertisers seek to acquire impressions from an advertising exchange through a multitier network of intermediaries, and study the mechanisms offered by the ad exchange and intermediaries when the ...
Collaborative Consumption: Strategic and Economic Implications of Product Sharing

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Management Science

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    Recent technological advances in online and mobile communications have enabled collaborative consumption or product sharing among consumers on a massive scale. Collaborative consumption has emerged as a major trend as the global economic recession and ...
Higher Market Thickness Reduces Matching Rate in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Quasiexperiment

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Management Science

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    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 that a potential match exists. However, they can also be vulnerable to ...
Service Region Design for Urban Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems

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M&SOM

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    Emerging collaborative consumption business models have shown promise in terms of both generating business opportunities and enhancing the efficient use of resources. In the transportation domain, car-sharing models are being adopted on a mass scale in ...
Dimensioning On-Demand Vehicle Sharing Systems

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Management Science

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    We consider the problem of optimal fleet sizing in a vehicle sharing system. Vehicles are available for short-term rental and are accessible from multiple locations. A vehicle rented at one location can be returned to any other location. The size of the ...
Setting Inventory Levels in a Bike Sharing Network

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Transportation Science

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    Bike sharing systems (BSSs) allow customers to rent bicycles at automatic rental stations distributed throughout a city, use them for a short period of time, and return them to any station. One of the major issues that BSS operators must address is ...
Dynamic Intra-Cell Repositioning in Free-Floating Bike-Sharing Systems Using Approximate Dynamic Programming

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Transportation Science

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    In bike-sharing systems, the spatiotemporal imbalance of bike flows leads to shortages of bikes at some locations and overages at some others, depending on the time of the day, resulting in user dissatisfaction. Repositioning needs to be performed timely ...
Reducing Discrimination with Reviews in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb

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Management Science

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    Recent research has found widespread discrimination by hosts against guests of certain races in online marketplaces. In this paper, we explore ways to reduce such discrimination using online reputation systems. We conducted four randomized field ...
Manufacturer’s Entry in the Product-Sharing Market

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M&SOM

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    Problem definition : Mobile communications technologies and online platforms have enabled large-scale consumer-to-consumer (C2C) sharing of their underutilized products. This paper studies a manufacturer’s optimal entry strategy in the product-sharing ...
Drivers, Riders, and Service Providers: The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Mobility

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Management Science

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    It is widely believed that ride sharing, the practice of sharing a car such that more than one person travels in the car during a journey, has the potential to significantly reduce traffic by filling up cars more efficiently. We introduce a model in which ...
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Published Online: March 26, 2019

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Published Online: April 5, 2016

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