Research

Journal Papers (*indicates a supervised PhD student or postdoctoral fellow)

[1] Xiangyin Kong*, Qi Cheng*, Yimin Yu , 2023. ``On Dynamic Incentives in Sales Force Compensation,'' Marketing Science, accepted. 

[2] David Chen, Chris Tang, Huihui Wang*, Rowan Wang, Yimin Yu, 2022. ``Offering Free Upgrades Even before Stocks Run out: The Value of Proactive Upgrades,'' Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.

[3] Xiaobei Shen*, Yimin Yu, Jing-Sheng Song, 2021. "Optimal Policies for a Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem with Service Time Target and Expediting", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.

[4] Xiaobei Shen*, Yimin Yu, Tim Huh, 2021. ``A Permutation-Dependent Separability Approach for Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory Systems,''  Operations Research, accepted.

[5] Hanlin Liu*, Yimin Yu, 2022. ``Incentives for Shared Services: Multi-Server Queueing Systems with Priorities'', Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(3), 1751–1759.

[6] Hanlin Liu*, Yimin Yu, Saif Benjaafar, Huihui Wang*, 2022. ``Price-Directed Cost Sharing and Demand Allocation among Service Providers with Multiple Demand Sources and Multiple Facilities'', Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24,(1), 647-663.

[7] Han Zhu*, Yimin Yu, Saibal Ray, 2021. ``Quality Disclosure Strategy under Customer Learning Opportunities'', Production and Operations Management, 30(4), 1136-1153.

[8] Yimin Yu, Xiangyin Kong*, 2020. "Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard", Operations Research, 68(5), 1457-1473.

[9] Xiaobei Shen*, Yimin Yu, 2019. "Capacity Allocation with Multiple Suppliers and Multiple Demand Classes", Production and Operations Management, 28(11), 2792-2807.

[10] Xiaobei Shen*, Lina Bao*, Yimin Yu, Zhongsheng Hua, 2019. "Managing Supply Chains with Expediting and Multiple Demand Classes", Production and Operations Management, 28(5),  1129–1148.

[11] Saif Benjaafar, David  Chen, Yimin Yu, 2018. "Optimal Policies for Inventory Systems with Concave Ordering Costs", Naval Research Logistics, 65(4), 291-302 . 

[12] Xiaobei Shen*, Lina Bao*, Yimin Yu, 2018. "Coordinating Inventory and Pricing Decisions with General Price-Dependent Demands", Production and Operations Management, 27(7), 1355-1367.  

[13] Lina Bao*, Zhiying Liu, Yimin Yu, Wei Zhang, 2018. ``On the decomposition property for a dynamic inventory rationing problem with multiple demand classes and backorder'', European Journal of Operational Research, 265(1), 99-106

[14] Yi Yang, Yimin Yu, Tingliang Huang, 2017. "Myopic Analysis for Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems with Batch Ordering and Nonstationary/Time-Correlated Demands", Production and Operations Management, 26(1), 31-46.

[15] Yimin Yu, Saif Benjaafar and Yigal Gerchak, 2015. "Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms with Congestion", Production and Operations Management, 24(8), 1285-1310.

[16] Zhongsheng Hua, Yimin Yu, Wei Zhang, Xiaoyan Xu. 2015, "Structural Properties of the Optimal Policy for Dual Sourcing Systems with General Leadtimes", IIE Transactions, 47(8), 841-850.

[17]  Maggie Chuoyan Dong, Zhiqiang Liu, Yimin Yu, and Jinhui Zheng, 2014. "Opportunism in Distribution Networks: The Role of Network Embeddedness and Dependence",  Production and Operations Management, 24(10), 657-1670.

[18] Tingliang Huang, Yimin Yu, 2014. "Sell Probabilistic Goods? A Behavioral Explanation for Opaque Selling", Marketing Science, 33 (5), 743–759.

Sample Working Papers

[18] Lina Bao*, Yi Li*, Yimin Yu and Wei Zhang*. "Dynamic Multisourcing Strategy with Correlated Yields", working paper.

[19] Yimin Yu, Lina Bao*. "Dynamic Auction for Network Resource Allocation", working paper.

[20] Yihang Yang*, Yimin Yu, Qian Wang*, and Junming Liu. ``Fleet Repositioning for Vehicle Sharing Systems: the Optimality of Balanced Myopic Policy", working paper.

[21] Xiangyin Kong*, Yimin Yu, Huihui Wang*, ``Dynamic Multi-product Procurement with Joint and Individual Setup Costs: Theory and Insights,'' working paper.

[22] Zheyi Li*, Yimin Yu, Xiaoxiao Li*, ``Cyclic Pricing with Strategic Waiting Customers: the Role of Herding Behaviors,'' working paper.

Research Members

• TU Kerui (2018- EF Ph.D student, B.S. Beijing Normal University)

• LI Xiaoxiao (2019- Ph.D student, B.S. Xi'an Jiaotong  University)

• LI Zheyi (2019- Ph.D student, B.S. Beijing Normal University)

• LIN Jingwen (2020- Ph.D student, B.S. University of Science & Technology of China)

• ZHANG Xiaohan (2021- Ph.D student, B.S. Nanjing University)

• LEI Bozhuang (2021- Ph.D student, B.S. Xi'an Jiaotong  University)

• SHEN Feiyang (2022- Ph.D student, B.S. Southeast University)

• FENG Haodong (2022-Ph.D student, B.S., Shanghai Jiaotong University)

• PENG Xiankun (2022-PhD student, B.S., Dalian University of Technology) 

Past Research Members

• Dr. CHEN Li (2013 Ph.D)

• Dr. ZHANG Wei (post-doc, now an associate professor at Zhejiang University)

• Dr. SHEN Xiaobei (2016 post-doc, now an associate professor at University of Science & Technology of China)

• Dr. Wang Huihui (2016 Ph.D, assistant professor, Shanghai University)

• Dr. ZHU Han (2017 Ph.D, assistant professor, Dongbei University of  Finance and Economics)

• Dr. BAO Lina (2017 Ph.D , assistant professor, Zhejiang University )

• Dr. LIU Hanlin (2018 Ph.D, assistant professor, Southern University of Science & Technology)

• Dr. KONG Xiangyin (2020 Ph.D, assistant professor, University of Science & Technology of China)

• Dr. LI Yi (2021 Ph.D, assistant professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University)

• Dr. WANG Xiuxian (2021 Ph.D, assistant professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University)

• Dr KOU Binghan (2022- Ph.D, postdoc, Arizona State University)

• Dr. WANG Qian (2022-Ph.D, assistant professor, Lingnan University)

• Dr. CHENG Qi (2023, Ph.D, assistant professor, University of Science & Technology of China)

• Dr. YANG Yihang (2022-Ph.D, postdoc, AIFT & City University of Hong Kong)

Selected Research Collaborators

• Prof. Saif Benjaafar, University of Minnesota

• Prof. Jeannette Song, Duke University 

• Prof. Lei Xie, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

• Prof. Yi Yang, Zhejiang University

• Prof. Wei Zhang, Zhejiang University

• Prof. Rowan Wang, Singapore Management University

• Prof. Tim Huh, University of British Columbia