Research

Publication

• • 1.  What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers, with Lei Xu and Luis Cabral. Management Science. 2019

  • 2.  Examining the impact of television-program-induced emotions on online word-of-mouth toward television advertising, with Yuheng Hu and Cheng Chen. Information Systems Research. 2021

  • 3.  The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Household Finance, with Yuyuan Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani. MIS Quarterly. 2021 

  • 4. Social Media, Brand Signaling and the Goldilocks Principle, with Arun Sundararajan. Information Systems Research. 2022

  • 5. Platform Policies and Sellers’ Competition in Agency Selling in the Presence of Online Quality Misrepresentation, with Liangfei Qiu, Jingchuan Pu and Hsing Kenneth Cheng. Journal of Management Information Systems. 2022

  • 6. Impact of Quality Certification in a Sharing Economy Platform: Evidence from AirBnB, with Jooho Kim and Sanjeev Dewan. Forthcoming at Management Information Systems Quarterly

 Working Papers

• • 1. Moving Up by Moving Around? How Career Atypicality Shapes Women’s Organizational Advancement in a High-Tech Firm, with Leung, Ming D., Sharon Koppman and Richard Lu. (Revise and Resubmit)

  • 2. Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. (Revise and Resubmit)

  • 3. Disintermediation on Two-sided Platforms: Measurement and Mitigation, with Jinan Lin and Natasha Zhang Foutz (Revise and Resubmit)

  • 4. Are Contests Effective for Online Labor Markets?, with Jason Chan, Nila Zhang, Jiahui Mo. (Revise and Resubmit)

  • 5. Lower-Tier Products: Friends or Foes? The Impact of Carpool on Ride-Hailing Platforms, with Jinan Lin and Vidyanand Choudhary. (Under Review) 

  • 6. Impacts of the Sharing Economy Entry and Regulations on Financial Delinquencies, with Jinan Lin and Vijay Gurbaxani. (Revise and Resubmit) 

  • 7.  Consumer Aversion to Price Volatility: Implications to Airbnb Smart Pricing. iwith Jiaqi Shi, Jinan Lin, and Minyu Joo.

  • 8. Weathering a Demand Shock: Do Size and Market Structure Matter? with Jinan Lin, Ziyi Cao and Gordon Burtch

  • 9. The Cost of Corporate Misconduct in the Digital Age: Evidence from Incriminating Social Media Posts on Company Revenue, with Donghwa Bae and Jason Chan.

  • 10. Privacy Regulation and Its Unintended Consequence on Consumption Behaviors: Evidence From CCPA, with Donghwa Bae and Raveesh Mayya.

  • 11. Impacts of Market Thickness on Customers and Restaurants: Evidence from Online Food Delivery Platforms, with Jinan Lin, Ziyi Cao and Yili Kevin Hong. 

  • 12. Too Sexy for the Job? The Beauty Penalty versus the Beauty Premium, with Meng Zhu and Joachim Vosgerau.

  • 13. The Ownership Economy: How Stock Rewards Shape Consumer Spending, with Ziyi Cao and Arun Sundararajan.

Conference Presentations:

• Impacts of Market Thickness on Customers and Restaurants: Evidence from Online Food Delivery Platforms, Ziyi Cao, Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian, Yili Kevin Hong.

  • • Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Denmark, December 2022.  

• Consumer Aversion to Price Volatility: Implications to Airbnb Smart Pricing, Jiaqi Shi, Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian, Minyu (Max) Joo.

  • • Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Business Analytics, Boston, December 2022. 

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022.  

• The Ownership Economy: How Stock Rewards Shape Consumer Spending, Ziyi Cao, Tingting Nian, Arun Sundararajan.

  • • Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Denmark, December 2022.  

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022. 

• Privacy Regulation and Its Unintended Consequence on Consumption Behaviors: Evidence From CCPA, Donghwa Bae, Raveesh Mayya, Tingting Nian.

  • • Platform Strategy Research Symposium, Boston, July 2023. (Co-author presented)

    • Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Indianapolis, October 2022.  

    • Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Denmark, December 2022.  

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022. 

• Measurement and Mitigation of Disintermediation in Online Two-sided Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb and Location Big Data, Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian, Natasha Zhang Foutz.

  • • International Conference on Information Systems, Denmark, December 2022.  

    • Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Indianapolis, October 2022.  

    • Platform Strategy Research Symposium, Boston, July 2022. (Co-author presented)

    • Meta Inc. Economics Seminar Series, CA, July 2022. (Co-author presented)

    • Marketing Science, June 2022. (Co-author presented)

    • Artificial Intelligence in Management, USC, CA, May 2022. (Co-author presented)

• Social Media Warfare: Estimating the Extent of Harm (Benefit) of Social Media Posts on Company Revenue, Donghwa Bae, Jason Chan, Tingting Nian.

  • • Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, Madrid, Spain, June 2022 (Co-author presented).

    •  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 2022.  

• Economic Impacts of Platform-Endorsed Quality Certification: Evidence From Airbnb, Sanjeev Dewan, Jooho Kim, Tingting Nian

  • •  Conference on Information Systems and Technology, DC, November 2020. 

    • Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Munich, Germany, December 2019 (Co-author presented). 

    • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 2019 (Co-author presented).

    • Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, Hongkong, China, June 2019 (Coauthor Presented). 

• The Impact of Airbnb’s Entry on Financial Delinquency, Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian, Vijay Gurbaxani.

  • •  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 2019 (Co-author presented).

    • Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, Hongkong, China, June 2019 (Co-author presented).

• Too Sexy for the Job? The Beauty Penalty versus the Beauty Premium, Meng Zhu, Tingting Nian, Joachim Vosgerau.

  • • International Forum of Marketing Science and Applications, Guangzhou, China, June 2019 (Coauthor Presented). 

    • Judgement and Decision-Making Winter Symposium, Utah, US, January 2019 (Coauthor Presented). 

• Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community, Tingting Nian, Lei Xu, Sanjeev Dewan.

  • • Cornell Entrepreneurship and Innovation Workshop, Ithaca, NY, May 2019. 

    • Chinese Economists Society Northern America Annual Conference, Lawrence, KS, April 2019. 

    • NABE Tech Economics Conference, San Francisco, October 2018. 

    • Annual Meeting of the Decision Science Institute, Chicago, November 2018.

    •  NBER Summer Institute, Boston, July 2018. (Poster)

    • Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics in Information Systems, DC, May 2018.  

    • WISE, South Korea, December 2017.  

• What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers, Lei Xu, Tingting Nian, Luis Cabral.

  • •  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015

    • NBER Summer 2015: Economics of IT and Digitization, Boston, MA, July 2015. (Co-author presented)

    • Platform Strategy Research Symposium, Boston, MA, July 2015. (Co-author presented)

    • Fourth Society of Labor Economists World Conference (SOLE), Montreal, QC, June 2015. (Co-author presented)

    • 13th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Boston, MA, April 2015. (Co-author presented)

    • Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2014.

• The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Household Finance, Tingting Nian, Yuyuan Anthony Zhu, Vijay Gurbaxani.

  • • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, October 2017.

    • NBER Summer Institute, Boston, July 2017. (Poster)

    • Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 2017.

    • Road to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age Conference, Irvine, CA, March 2017.

    • Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Dublin, Ireland, 2016.

• How Mood Affects the Effectiveness of TV Commercials, Tingting Nian, Yuheng Hu, Cheng Chen.

  • • The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Montreal, Canada, 2017 (Co-author presented).

    • Winter Conference on Business Analytics, Utah, March 2017.

    • Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Dublin, Ireland, 2016.

• Reputation Manipulation and Market Interaction, Jingchuan Pu, Tingting Nian, Liangfei Qiu, Hsing K. Cheng.

  • • Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Seattle, May 2017 (Co-author presented).

• The Goldilocks Principle: Why Mid-Tier Brands Invest More in Social Media, Tingting Nian, Arun Sundararajan.

  • • Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), San Francisco, 2014. Best Conference Paper

• Capturing Brand Sentiment through Social Media: a Case for Superbowl, Tingting Nian, Arun Sundararajan.

  • •  INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 2016.

    • Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014.

    •  Marketing Science, Atlanta, 2014.

• Revealing Life Events from Inferred Customer Similarity: a Predictive Modeling Approach, Tingting Nian, Enric Junqué de Fortuny, Foster Provost.

  • • WCAI Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, March 2015.

    • Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Auckland, New Zealand, 2014.