TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1 Impact of Sharing Economy - Chapter 1 Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing: Implications for Ownership, Usage, and Social Welfare o Saif Benjaafar (University of Minnesota - Industrial & System Engineering) o Guangwen Kong (University of Minnesota - Industrial & System Engineering) o Xiang Li (University of Minnesota - Industrial & System Engineering) o Costas Courcoubetis (Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)) - Chapter 2 Collaborative Consumption: Strategic and Economic Implications of Product Sharing o Baojun Jiang (Washington University in Saint Louis - John M. Olin Business School) o Lin Tian (Fudan University - School of Management) - Chapter 3 The Sharing Newsboys o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) Sec tion 2 Intermediary Role of a Sharing Platform - Chapter 4 The Role of Surge Pricing on a Service Platform with Self-Scheduling Capacity o Gerard P. Cachon (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) o Kaitlin M. Daniels (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) o Ruben Lobel (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) - Chapter 5 On-Demand Service Platforms o Terry Taylor (U.C. Berkeley - Haas School of Business) - Chapter 6 Managing Congestion in Decentralized Matching Markets o Nick Arnosti (Stanford University - Department of Management Science and Engineering) o Ramesh Johari (Stanford University - Department of Management Science and Engineering) o Yash Kanoria (Columbia University - Columbia Business School) - Chapter 7 Price and Wage Selections for an On-demand Service Platform o Jiaru Bai (University of California, Irvine Paul - Merage School of Business) o Rick So (University of California, Irvine Paul - Merage School of Business) o Christopher S. Tang (University of California, Los Angeles) - Chapter 8 Take-Rate Crowdsourcing Contracts o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Yun Zhou (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) - Chapter 9 Dynamic Type Matching o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Yun Zhou (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management Section 3 Crowdsourcing Management (Group Buying, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing Contest) - Chapter 10 Simultaneous vs. Sequential Group-Buying Mechanisms o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Mengze Shi (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Jiahua Wu (Imperial College London - Imperial Co llege Business School) - Chapter 11 Operational Advantages and Optimal Design of Threshold Discounting Offers o Simone Marinesi (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) o Karan Girotra (INSEAD) o Serguei Netessine (INSEAD) - Chapter 12 Product and Pricing Decisions in Crowdfunding o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Xi Li (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Mengze Shi (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) - Chapter 13 A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding o Saeed Alaei (Google, Inc.) o Azarakhsh Malekian (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Mohamed Mostagir (University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business) - Chapter 14 Dynamic Stimulus in Crowdfunding o Longyuan Du (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) o Ming Hu (University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management) - Chapter 15 Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea o Karan Girotra (INSEAD) o Christian Terwiesch (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) o Karl T. Ulrich (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) - Chapter 16 Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multi-Agent Problem Solving o Christian Terwiesch (University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School) o Yi Xu (University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business) - Chapter 17 Innovation Tournaments with Multiple Contributors o Laurence Ales (Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business) o Soo-Haeng Cho (Carnegie Mellon University - Tepp