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Intermediation via Credit Chains
The modern financial system features complicated financial intermediation chains, with each layer performing a certain degree of credit/maturity transformation. We develop a dynamic model in which an entrepreneur borrows from overlapping-…
Share Pledging in China: Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?
This paper studies the connection between share pledging and entrepreneurial activities in China, challenging the common wisdom that share pledging funds circle back to the listed firms. Share pledging funds are at the discretion of the…
Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer and Performance in Emerging Economic Regions: the Case of Japanese International Joint Ventures in China
As emerging economic regions (EERs) play a significant role in global economies, managers of multinationals have become increasingly aware of the importance of relevant international expansion in these regions. Facing potential market…
Equilibria in Repeated Games under No-Regret with Dynamic Benchmarks
In repeated games, strategies are often evaluated by their ability to guarantee the performance of the single best action that is selected in hindsight, a property referred to as Hannan consistency, or no-regret. However, the effectiveness of the…
Financial Resources Impact the Relationship between Meaning and Happiness
Do financial resources relate to how important meaning is for one’s happiness? Across three large-scale datasets spanning over 500,000 individuals across 123 countries, we examined the relationship between meaning and happiness for individuals…
Including Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Ethics in Calibrating MBA Job Preferences
Our research studies 759 MBAs graduating from eleven business schools to gain insight into what MBAs in the 21st Century care about during their job searches. We update the MBA job preference literature by using adaptive conjoint analysis to…
Interference and Decision-Making in Marketplace Experimentation
Work in Progress
Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards
Online discussion platforms (often referred to as discussion boards) are designed for facilitating remote discussions between users. To stimulate engagement (e.g., participation in the discussion), these platforms offer arriving users a ranked…
On the Management of Premade Foods
This paper examines a grocery retailer’s management of a premade food product. The retailer’s goal is to maximize a weighted sum of direct profit and customer welfare. Multiple items of the product are produced in batches and displayed for sale.…
Pay-as-Bid Procurement Mechanisms for Differentiated Products
Problem definition: We consider the mechanism design problem of finding an optimal pay-as-bid mechanism in which the platform chooses an assortment of suppliers that balances the tradeoff between two objectives: providing enough…
Psychological Ownership as an Intervention: Improving the Government Benefit Participation Gap
SCP Annual Conference Best Competitive Paper Award, Runner Up, 2021
Quality Selection in Two-Sided Markets: A Constrained Price Discrimination Approach
Online platforms collect rich information about participants, and then share this information back with participants to improve market outcomes. In this paper we study the following information disclosure problem of a two-sided market: how much…
Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis
Economists routinely make functional form assumptions about consumer demand to obtain welfare estimates — often for convenience, tractability, or both. How sensitive are welfare estimates to these assumptions? In this paper, we answer this…
Creditor Control Rights and Executive Bonus Plans
We study whether and how creditors exercise their control rights to shape their borrowers’ executive compensation plans. Highly levered borrowers often face incentives to underinvest due to agency conflicts driven by differences in time horizon…
The Economic Value of Norm Conformity and Menu-Opt-out Costs
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the trade-offs between consumption versus norm conformity and choosing from a menu of default (pre-selected) options versus opting to compute a preferred non-menu choice. In the theoretical model…
Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
Income differences across US cities are well documented, but little is known about the level of standard of living in each city — defined as the amount of market-based consumption that residents are able to afford. In this paper we provide…
Quality Transparency and Healthcare Competition
Transparency of quality in the healthcare sector primarily aims to facilitate patients’ care decisions, however, it also provides useful information to competing healthcare providers. We study how competitors respond to increased transparency…
Computationally Tractable Choice
I incorporate computational constraints into decision theory in order to capture how cognitive limitations affect behavior. I impose an axiom of computational tractability that only rules out behaviors that are thought to be fundamentally hard. I…
Consistency of Spectral Clustering on Hierarchical Stochastic Block Models
We study the hierarchy of communities in real-world networks under a generic stochastic block model, in which the connection probabilities are structured in a binary tree. Under such model, a standard recursive bi-partitioning algorithm is…
Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: An Effective Tool to Mitigate Climate Change?
In this article we first summarize the specific plans articulated by seven major corporations for reducing their Corporate Carbon Footprints (abbreviated as CCF from hereon). Our sample is not intended to be representative of the broader…