Research Interests

  • Interface of Operations and Finance

       -- Supply Chain Finance, Factoring & Reverse Factoring, Trade Finance, Financial Market Frictions

  • Economics of FinTech and Blockchain

       -- Crowdfunding, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) & Tokenomics, Blockchain Adoption, FinTech for Supply Chains

  • Social Operations Management

       -- Network Effects, Social Learning, Social Influence, Word-of-Mouth, Online Influencer, Wisdom of the Crowd​​

  • Social and Economic Networks

       -- Supply Chain Networks, Financial Networks, Network Centrality, Network Games, Network Traceability

  • Information Economics

       -- Economics of Data and Privacy, Data Markets, Bayesian Persuasion, Information Design

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Journal Publications

  • A Supply Chain Theory of Factoring and Reverse Factoring  [SSRN] 

       -- with Panos Kouvelis​​

       -- Forthcoming, Management Science, 2020

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Working Papers

  • Crowdfunding under Social Learning and Network Externalities  [SSRN] 

       -- with Fuqiang Zhang​

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  • Crowdfunding Strategy with Word-of-Mouth Communication  [SSRN]

       -- with Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao, Fuqiang Zhang​​

           ○ 2019 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference​​

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  • Blockchain Adoption for Traceability in Food Supply Chain Networks  [SSRN] 

       -- with Lingxiu Dong, Puping Jiang

           ○ Winner, 2020 POMS PITM Best Student Paper Competition​

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  • Blockchain-Driven Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance

       -- with Lingxiu Dong, Yunzhe Qiu​​​​​​​

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  • The Tokenvendor Problem: Tokenizing Cargo Reservations under Overbooking and No-Shows

       -- with Jacob Feldman, Panos Kouvelis, Yunzhe Qiu​​​​​

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  • Operational Uncertainty and Crowdfunding Design

       -- with Panos Kouvelis, Weicai Peng​​​​

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  • Market Frictions and Cash-in-Advance Financing

       -- with Panos Kouvelis, Wenhui Zhao​​​​​

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  • Consumer Privacy and Retail Platform Operations

       -- with Xiaoyu Wang, Fuqiang Zhang​

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  • A Model of Livestream Selling with Online Influencers

       -- with Jing Hou, Houcai Shen​

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  • A Theory of FinTech and Trade Finance

       -- with Xiaoyu Wang

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