Artificial intelligence is powering the fourth industrial revolution and has been called the “new electricity.” The global economic impact of AI applications is expected to reach $2.95 trillion by 2025, and we’re already seeing AI…
Ride-hailing platforms like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Ola are transforming urban mobility by connecting riders with drivers via the sharing economy. These platforms have achieved explosive growth, in part by dramatically improving the efficiency…
We consider the problem of designing mechanisms for online marketplaces for long-lived agents with persistent preferences. Bidder dashboards, which forecast outcomes as a function of bid, help bidders optimize their bids. The principal in such…
Owned by nobody and controlled by an almost immutable protocol, the Bitcoin payment system is a platform with two main constituencies: users and profit-seeking miners who maintain the system’s infrastructure. The paper seeks to understand…
