Status: Information Systems Research (Forthcoming) (Joint work with Allen Li) Grubhub added “non-partnered” restaurants to its platform. Some restaurants complained and Californian regulators banned this practice. We use these two […]
Category: Research Work
Token Tradability as a Platform Governance Mechanism: Evidence from a Policy Change
Status: Conference Submission Stage. (Joint work with Yuxin Geng and Chenshuo Sun) We show that enabling tradability of platform specific digital token without active value management hurts platform and user […]
Location Divide in Digital Platforms? Evidence from a policy change
Status: Journal Submission Stage. (Joint work with Lanfei Shi and Shun Ye) Amazon changed a policy to disclose sellers’ business information (including sellers’ location) to increase transparency. However, disclosing the […]
Using Smart TVs to Improve Linear TV Content Engagement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment
Status: Journal Submission Stage. (Joint work with Siva Viswanathan) A large-scale randomized field experiment to improve the efficacy of Broadcast content consumption on Smart-TV by leveraging multi-screen connectivity to smart […]
Seed Accelerators and Information Asymmetries: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital Investments
Status: Major Revision at Management Science (Joint work with Peng Huang) A comprehensive study of how seed accelerators help investors in addressing the assessment and valuation problem of startups and […]
Delaying Informed Consent: An Empirical Investigation of Mobile Apps’ Upgrade Decisions
Status: Management Science (Forthcoming) (Joint work with Siva Viswanathan) Android enhanced how consumers control their private data and provided developers a time-flexibility to adopt this policy. Some apps intentionally delayed […]
Who Forgoes Screening in Online Markets and When? Evidence from Airbnb
Status: MIS Quarterly December 2021 (Joint work with Siva Viswanathan, Rajshree Agarwal and Shun Ye) An investigation of Airbnb’s policy change that allowed hosts to voluntarily forgo screening and how […]