3 papers
cs.GT2026
A Stochastic Growth Model for Online Platforms
Farbod Ekbatani, René Caldentey
We investigate the growth trajectory of online platforms operating as market makers in two-sided matching markets. Their expansion, often referred to as the ``chicken-and-egg dilem…
cs.MA2026
Intertemporal Demand Allocation for Inventory Control in Online Marketplaces
Rene Caldentey, Tong Xie
Online marketplaces increasingly do more than simply match buyers and sellers: they route orders across competing sellers and, in many categories, offer ancillary fulfillment servi…
math.OC2026
Designing Information Delays in Supply Chains
Prem Talwai, Rene Caldentey, Avi Giloni +3
This paper studies how a downstream retailer in a decentralized two-tier supply chain can implicitly transmit demand information to an upstream supplier through the structure of it…