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Design a pricing experiment with network effects

System Design · Instacart · Hard

Context You are evaluating a new pricing policy designed to encourage customers to complete or pick up more orders during rush hours on a two-sided marketplace, where demand and supply interact. You anticipate network effects and interference: changing the price shown to one group of participants may alter product availability, estimated delivery times, or how often orders are accepted for other participants. Task Design an experiment to measure the causal impact of this…

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