Associate Professor of Information Systems
W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
I work at the interface of economics and computation, with applications in platform-based markets, social media, and innovation. I am excited about the ongoing transformation of economics driven by the data and computation revolution.
Before coming to Phoenix, I worked on my Ph.D. in economics at The University of Texas at Austin. I also studied economics and mathematics at Peking University, Beijing, China.
Seek Order Hidden in Complexity
Impact of the GDPR on the Global Mobile App Market:
Digital Trade Implications of Data Protection and Privacy
Regulations
working
paper version, pdf
(with Ziru Li, Gunwoong Lee and Raghu
Santanam)
Information Systems
Research, forthcoming
#Data & Privacy #Digital Trade
An Economic Analysis of Product Recommendation in the
Presence of Quality and Taste-Match Heterogeneity
working
paper version, pdf
(with Raghu Santanam)
Information Systems
Research, 31(2), 299-411, 2020
#Search & Recommendation #Platform
Design & Strategy
(Previously titled Platform Recommendation in Search Markets: Theory and Evidence from the Mobile App Market)
The Spillover of Spotlight: Platform Recommendation in
the Mobile App Market
working paper
version, pdf
(with
Chen Liang and Raghu Santanam)
Information
Systems Research, 30(4), 1296-1318, 2019
#Search & Recommendation
Learning from Your Friends' Check-Ins: An Empirical
Study of Location-Based Social Networks
(with Liangfei
Qiu and Andrew B. Whinston)
Information Systems
Research, 29(4), 1044-1061,
2018
#Social Network
Towards a Better Measure of Business Proximity: Topic
Modeling for Industry Intelligence
working paper
version, pdf
(with
Gene Moo Lee and Andrew B. Whinston)
MIS
Quarterly Special Issue on Transformational Issues
of Big Data and Analytics in Networked Business,
40(4), 1035-1056, 2016
#Firm Network #Analytics Application
& System
Media stories: Phys, Eurekalert
(An
early version also appeared in the
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics
and Computation, 2014)
Hidden Suppliers Can Make or Break Your
Operations
Story: HBR
(with
Benjamin B.M. Shao and Thomas Y. Choi)
Harvard
Business Review, May 29, 2015
A Data-Analytics Approach to Identifying Hidden Critical
Suppliers in Supply Networks: Development of Nexus
Supplier Index
(with Benjamin B.M. Shao, Thomas Y. Choi
and Sangho Chae)
Decision Support Systems,
114, 37-48, 2018
#Analytics Application & System #Firm
Network
Content Sharing in a Social Broadcasting Environment:
Evidence from Twitter
working paper
version, pdf
(with
Huaxia Rui and Andrew B. Whinston)
MIS
Quarterly, 38(1), 123-142, 2014
#Social Network
Media stories: Yahoo, The Chronicle of Higher
Education
(Previously circulated as Information
Sharing in Social Broadcast: Evidences from Twitter)
Network Structure and Observational Learning: Evidence
from a Location-Based Social
Network
working paper
version, pdf
(with Andrew B. Whinston)
Journal of Management
Information Systems, 30(2), 185-212,
2013#Social Network
(Previously circulated as Shall I Go? The Unequal Effects of Friends’ Check-ins)
Wandering Exploration
Consumer Search, Producer Entry, and Product Variety: Theory and Evidence from a Digital Product Market.
Parent-Descendant Business Similarity and Employee-Founded Startups' Early Performance.
Entrepreneurial Spawning Across Product Markets: Skills, Similarity and Parents' Diversification.
Venture Capitalists' Over-Investments in a Hot Market: Evidence from Employee Entrepreneurship.