4 papers
The Illusion of Collusion
Connor Douglas, Foster Provost, Arun Sundararajan
Algorithmic agents are used in a variety of competitive decision-making settings, including pricing contexts that range from online retail to residential home rental. We study the…
Platform Design, Earnings Transparency and Minimum Wage Policies: Evidence from A Natural Experiment on Lyft
Rubing Li, Xiao Liu, Arun Sundararajan
We study the effects of a significant design and policy change at a major ridesharing platform that altered both provider earnings and platform transparency, examining how it affec…
Reasoning and the Trusting Behavior of DeepSeek and GPT: An Experiment Revealing Hidden Fault Lines in Large Language Models
Rubing Li, João Sedoc, Arun Sundararajan
When encountering increasingly frequent performance improvements or cost reductions from a new large language model (LLM), developers of applications leveraging LLMs must decide wh…
The Rise of Recommerce: Ownership and Sustainability with Overlapping Generations
Rubing Li, Arun Sundararajan
The emergence of the branded recommerce channel - digitally enabled and branded marketplaces that facilitate purchasing pre-owned items directly from a manufacturer's e-commerce si…