Merchant selection and pricing strategy for a platform firm in the online group buying market

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Funding Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Guest Editor, two anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions and comments. We also appreciate the constructive comments of participants at the 2014 INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Analytics. We have benefited from fruitful discussion with Anand Bodapati and Chen Hsiao. This research was partially supported by the Japan Center for Economic Research and a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.