Optimal Retail Pricing, Interest Rate, and Interest Allocation Ratio Decisions in an Online Platform-Assisted Financing System

Dianyao KANG; Mingming LENG

doi:10.1016/j.orl.2025.107268

Optimal Retail Pricing, Interest Rate, and Interest Allocation Ratio Decisions in an Online Platform-Assisted Financing System

Dianyao KANG, Mingming LENG^*

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Abstract

We examine an online financing system involving a platform, a bank, and a retailer, in which the bank makes the optimal interest rate decision before the bank-platform negotiation for the interest allocation ratio (scenario 1) or after the interest allocation ratio negotiation (scenario 2). We find that the retailer's sales and profits in scenario 1 are higher than those in scenario 2. Moreover, if the referral fee rate increases, the system-wide profit and the system efficiency for scenario 1 increase but those for scenario 2 decrease.

Original language	English
Article number	107268
Journal	Operations Research Letters
Volume	60
Early online date	25 Feb 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2025.107268
Publication status	Published - May 2025

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This research paper was supported by the General Research Fund (GRF) of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council under Research Project No. LU13500822.

Keywords

Nash bargaining
Platform financing
Sequential-move game

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Optimal Retail Pricing, Interest Rate, and Interest Allocation Ratio Decisions in an Online Platform-Assisted Financing System

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