Research

Papers under review

Authors list in alphabetical order

Liu, Jialu, Pei, Siqi, and Zhang, Xiaoquan, “Can Technology Alone Solve the Political Agency Problem? A Regression Discontinuity Design”. Management Science, revise & resubmit.

Click for abstract Exploiting the spatial discontinuity in monitoring water pollution generated by upstream and downstream firms, we examine whether technology can reduce the political agency problem of corruption between firms and regional government officials. We find that technology alone is not effective in reducing corruption between firms and regional officials. However, corruption is significantly reduced when technology is complemented by an organizational change implemented by the central government. Further analyses show that the reduction in corruption is significantly larger in locations where local officials have stronger political promotion incentives. Our findings demonstrate, in the setting of combating water pollution, that to mitigate the political agency problem, policymakers should introduce the right organizational change to complement new technologies.

Liu, Jialu, Pei, Siqi, and Zhang, Xiaoquan, “Online Food Delivery Platforms and Employment”. Information Systems Research, revise & resubmit.

Click for abstract Female labor force participation is often explained by factors such as schooling, wage gap, fertility, etc. We identify how technology-induced time savings from household chores led to increased female labor force participation in South Korea. Using a leads-and-lags difference-in-differences model, we find that the entry of an online food delivery platform significantly increased the female employment rate in the next three years. We estimate the positive externality generated by the online food delivery platform: this new technology-induced female employment accounts for 0.27% of South Korea’s GDP, or 17 times the revenue of the online food delivery platform.

In preparation

An Experimental Investigation of Contest Design for Data Science Challenge

Risk Disclosure Policy in Crowdfunding

Trade Secret Law and Online Knowledge Production

Conferences

“Your Movement in a City Reveals Your Credit”, (with Youngsok Bang), Post-ICIS KrAIS Research Workshop 2021, December 2021. (KrAIS Best Student Paper Award)

“Your Movement in a City Reveals Your Credit”, (with Youngsok Bang), Korea Intelligent Information Systems Society Fall Conference 2021 (KIISS 2021), December 2021. (KIISS Best Paper Award)

“Risk Disclosure Policy in Crowdfunding”, (with Siqi Pei, Keehyung Kim), 17th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2021), June 2021

“Online Food Delivery Platforms and Female Labor Force Participation”, (with Siqi Pei, Xiaoquan Michael Zhang) 31st Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), December 2020. (WISE Best Paper Award)

“Designing Multi-Stage Contests”, (with Keehyung Kim), 2020 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2020

“Designing Multi-Stage Contests: Does the Contest Structure Matter?”, (with Keehyung Kim), 16th Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2020), June 2020

“Your Movement in a City Tells Your Credit: Credit Default Prediction based on Geolocation Information”, (with Youngsok Bang). 13th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), June 2019, Shenzhen, China

“Your Movement in a City Tells Your Credit: Credit Default Prediction based on Geolocation Information”, (with Youngsok Bang). 2018 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, June 2018, Pennsylvania, USA

Last Updated: Aug 2022