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Capacity expansion in service platforms: financing vs. employment
Heikki Peura1, S: Alex Yang2
1Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2London Business School, United Kingdom
Service platforms connecting consumers to independent service providers are now ubiquitous in industries such as ride-hailing, food delivery, and accommodation. We study how a platform may expand capacity through either financing new providers' assets (e.g., cars), or investing in assets directly and employing the providers. We use a game-theoretic model to show when the platform prefers to expand by either scheme compared to conventional bank financing, and how this affects provider profits.
Reshoring under tariff uncertainty and competition
Panos Kouvelis1, Xiao Tan2, Sammi Tang3
1Washington University in St. Louis; 2Washington University in St. Louis; 3University of Miami
Recent development in the U.S. tariff policies has forced companies to rethink their global operational strategies, particularly whether to add a domestic production location that is immune to tariffs. This paper formulates a three-stage model to analyze the global firm's reshoring capacity, output quantity, and production decisions. We examine how reshoring capacity investment is affected by domestic competition and by tariff uncertainty at both the raw-material and finished-goods level.
