Working Papers

We empirically show people tend to associate a higher valuation of Bitcoin with a higher Bitcoin exchange rate, and such exchange rate has significant impacts on both the supply and demand of the mining rigs. Read More

This paper develops a theoretical model to study the economic incentives for a social media platform to moderate user-generated content. We show that a self-interested platform can use content moderation as an effective marketing tool to expand its installed user base, to increase the utility of its users, and to achieve its positioning as a ...Read More

In this paper, we propose combining data from both surrogate and true outcomes to improve decision-making within a late-phase clinical trial. Read More

I quantify the impact of trade secret protection on labor outsourcing, and consequently, on aggregate productivity. Read More

This study aims to measure the impact of General Data Protection Regulations on firms and consumers. Specifically, we plan to document GDPR’s impact on consumers search and discovery of products, and firm’s ability to reach out and sell to a broad set of consumers. Read More

This study examines the extent to which firms that are collaborating with other firms in a particular area of business subsequently change modes of governance and undertake independent activities in the same area of business. Read More

Advances in intelligent technologies change the way consumers search and shop for products. Emerging is the trend of home-shopping devices such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, which allow consumers to search or order products using voice commands. Read More

Transition services agreements (TSAs) are an important tool that companies use to manage the process of separating business units from their former corporate parents in spinoff transactions. Read More

The goal of our paper is to study whether machine learning can be used to infer tips that can help workers learn to make better decisions. Read More

Does the adoption of data analytics impact retailers’ performance, and if so, how? Exploiting the staggered adoption of a retail analytics service by more than 1,000 e-commerce websites, we find an average increase of 8-29% in monthly revenues post adoption. Read More