“Selling Poverty” on Kuaishou: How entrepreneurialism disciplines Chinese underclass online participation

Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass

How Do Firms Make Money Selling Digital Goods Online?

We review research on revenue models used by online firms who offer digital goods. Such goods are nonrival, have near zero marginal cost of production and distribution, low marginal cost of consumer search and low transaction costs. Additionally, firms can easily observe and measure consumer behavior. We start by asking what consumers can offer in exchange for digital goods. We suggest that con...

Young women selling sex online – narratives on regulating feelings

The current study concerns young women's life stories of their experiences selling sex online before the age of 18. The aim was to gain an understanding of young women's perceptions of the reasons they started, continued, and stopped selling sex. The study included interviews with 15 young women between the ages of 15 and 25 (M=18.9). Thematic analysis was used to identify similarities and diff...

Online Auction Effectiveness: Optimal Selling Strategies for Online Auction Market

The introduction of internet auction has significantly widened the pool of consumers who participate in auctions and increased the number of companies attempting to sell their products in an auction format. Previous empirical research on auctions has focused almost exclusively on the behavior of professional bidders. In this study, we collect data on a large number of internet auctions to explo...

Selling Banner Ads: Online Algorithms with Buyback

We initiate the study of online pricing problems in markets with “buyback,” i.e., markets in which prior allocation decisions can be revoked, but at a cost. In our model, a seller receives requests online and chooses which requests to accept, subject to constraints on the subsets of requests which may be accepted simultaneously. A request, once accepted, can be canceled at a cost which is a fix...