Research

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Working Papers

• Pricing AI as a service with Ilan Lobel and Yanwei Sun

• Beyond one shot: Contracting for sequential trials with Yanwei Sun and Jibang Wu
  • Preliminary version accepted at EC 2026
    
    
• The role of prescreening in auctions with predictions with Yanwei Sun, Fupeng Sun and Chiwei Yan
  • Preliminary version accepted at WINE 2025
    
    
• Information design and pricing in lead-selling platforms with supply competition with Yanwei Sun, Niloofar Zamani-Foroushani and Zhe Liu
  • Preliminary version accepted at EC 2024
    
    

• IT and operations miscoordination in a supply chain: Case of a quick-service restaurant chain with Peng Luo and Ming Hu

• Over-pledging in crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter with Wanjiang Deng, Mengze Shi and Ming Hu

Journal Articles

• Intertemporal price discrimination via randomized promotions with Hongqiao Chen and Ming Hu, 2023, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 25(3), 1176-1194

• Contingent stimulus in crowdfunding with Longyuan Du and Ming Hu, 2022, Production and Operations Management, 31(9), 3543-3558

• Sales effort management under all-or-nothing constraint with Longyuan Du and Ming Hu, 2021, Management Science, 68(7), 5109-5126

• Consumer profiling with data requirements: Structure and policy implications with Tommaso Valletti, 2020, Production and Operations Management, 29(2), 309-329

• Liking and following and the newsvendor: Operations and marketing policies under social influence with Ming Hu and Joseph Milner, 2016, Management Science, 62(3), 867-879

• Threshold effects in online group buying with Mengze Shi and Ming Hu, 2015, Management Science, 61(9), 2025-2040

• Simultaneous vs. sequential group-buying mechanisms with Ming Hu and Mengze Shi, 2013, Management Science, 59(12), 2805-2822

Books and Conference Publications

• Online group buying and crowdfunding: Two cases of all-or-nothing mechanisms with Ming Hu and Mengze Shi, 2019, Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (ed.), 319–346, in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, C. Tang (series ed.)

• Keep cache replacement simple in peer-assisted VoD systems with Baochun Li, in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2009