Research

• Research Interest: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

• Working Papers:

  1. “The Cost of Knowledge: Academic Journal Pricing and Research Dissemination,” with Yonghong An and Michael Williams, working paper.

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  2. “Policy Deterrence: Strategic Investment in U.S. Broadband,” with Karam Kang, working paper.

  3. “Endogeneity in Discrete Bayesian Games: U.S. Cellphone Service Deployment,” (with Zhongjian Lin and Xun Tang), working paper.

  4.  “Anatomy of Opioid Diversion: Examining Supply-Side Curtailment,” with Lance Gui and Chuan Qin (draft available upon request).

• Publications:

1. “Higher Precision is Not Always Better: Search Algorithm and Consumer Engagement,” (with Wei Zhou, Mingfeng Lin and Lu Fang), forthcoming, Management Science.

2. “Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit,” (with Avi Goldfarb), working paper, forthcoming, Quantitative Marketing and Economics.

3. “License Complementarity and Package Bidding: The U.S Spectrum Auctions,” (with Zhe Yuan), working paper, American Economic Journal – Microeconomics, 2022, 14(4): 420-464.

4. “Privatization and Productivity in China,” with Yuyu Chen, Mitsuru Igami, and Masayuki Sawada, working paper, online appendix and replication package (with data and codes), the RAND Journal of Economics, 2021, 52(4), 884-916.

5. “For Whom to Tweet? Evidence from a Large-Scale Social Media Platform,” (with Zaiyan Wei and Rong Rong), working paper, Production and Operations Management, 2021, 30(5), 1406-1426.

6. “Entry Threat, Entry Delay and Internet Speed: the Timing of U.S Broadband Rollout,” (with Kyle Wilson and Peter F. Orazem), working paper, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2021, 30(1), 3-44 (lead and featured article).

7. “Platform Mispricing and Lender Learning in Peer-to-Peer Lending,” with Xinyuan Liu and Zaiyan Wei, working paper, Review of Industrial Organization, 2020.

8. “Reputation Premium and Reputation Management: Evidence from China’s Largest e-Commerce Platform,” (with Ying Fan and Jiandong Ju), working paper, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2016, 46: 63-76.

9. “Competition and Subsidies in the Deregulated U.S. Local Telephone Industry,” (with Ying Fan), working paper, online appendix, the RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46(4), 751-776.

10.  “Strategic Information Disclosure: The Case of Multi-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers,” (with V. Joseph Hotz), working paper, Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51(1), 865-881.

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11. “Behavioral Models of Managerial Decision Making,” (with Avi Goldfarb, Teck-Hua Ho, and others), working paper, Marketing Letters, 2012, 23(2), 405-421.

12. “Who Thinks about the Competition: Managerial Ability and Strategic Entry in US Local Telephone Markets,” (with Avi Goldfarb), working paper, code, American Economic Review, 2011, 101(7), 3130-3161.

13. “The Impact of Regulation on Supply and Quality of Care in the Childcare Market,” (with V. Joseph Hotz), working paper, table appendix, American Economic Review, 2011, 101(5), 1775-1805.

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14. “Does the Fourth Entrant Make Any Difference? Entry and Competition in the Early U.S. Broadband Market,” (with Peter F. Orazem), working paper, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011, vol. 29: 547-561.

15. “Is Quality Certification Effective? Evidence from the Childcare Market,” working paper, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010, vol. 28: 708–721.

• Work in Progress

•  “The Competitive Effects of the Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merger,” with Fernando Luco and Kyle Wilson .

• Other Writings:

  1. “Telephone Services," with Andrew Kearns, forthcoming, Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Competition, Regulation and Antitrust, Michael D. Noel (Editor). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

  2. “Policy-Driven Innovation: The Case of China,” with Han Yuan, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Management (printed in Chinese, published online in English,  peer reviewed), working paper,  2023.

  3. “Introduction: Firms with Behavioral Biases,” (with Victor Tremblay), 2020, Review of Industrial Organization.

  4. “Privatization and Productivity in China,” (with Yuyu Chen, Mitsuru Igami, and Masayuki Sawada), VoxChina, Jan 31, 2018.

  5. “Racing for Diamonds on Taobao.com,” (with Yuk-Fai Fong and Kenny Yiu), 2013, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Case.

Current Teaching

• Econ 460: Industrial Organization, the University of Arizona

• Econ 462/562: Firms, Markets and Competition, the University of Arizona, a recent syllabus

• Econ 696Q: Empirical Methods in Industrial Organization (Ph.D. level), the University of Arizona

Last updated: April 2024