Research

Working papers

• A network approach to interoperability      (with Jinglei Huang, Guofu Tan, and Junjie Zhou)

​                       (Previously circulated as "Network Interoperability and Platform Competition") 

• ​​​Competing multiproduct intermediaries      (with Zhijun Chen and Yusuke Zennyo)​
• AI-delegated search and business model implications     (with Hajime Shimao and Warut Khern-am-nuai)
  

    

Publications
Industrial Organization / Platforms

• Competitive bottlenecks and platform spillovers        (with Julian Wright)      

                       American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (Forthcoming)

• Content-hosting platforms: discovery, membership, or both?    (with Ben Casner)                 

                       ​RAND Journal of Economics (November 2025, p668-688)     WP version

• ​Multihoming and oligopolistic platform competition​​     (with Chunchun Liu, Julian Wright, and Junjie Zhou)​ 

           ​            American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (November 2023, p68-113)   WP Version

• Platform governance    

                       American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (August 2022, p213-254)      WP version

• Intermediation and steering: competition in prices and commissions        (with Julian Wright)

​                       American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (May 2022, p281-321)     ​WP version

• ​Should platforms be allowed to sell on their own marketplaces?             (with Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright) ​

                       ​RAND Journal of Economics (May 2022, p297-327)         WP version

Other Works

• Cooperation and punishment mechanisms in uncertain and dynamic social networks​​   

​                        (with Edoardo Gallo, Yohanes Eko Riyanto, and Nilanjan Roy)
                       Games and Economic Behavior (2022)

• Identity in public goods contribution​        (with Fuhai Hong and Larry Karp) 

                       Social Choice and Welfare (2021)               ​

• Highly flexible neighborhood promotes efficient coordination: experimental evidence  ​(with Yohanes Eko Riyanto)

                       European Economic Review (2020)     

• Bureaucratic shirking, corruption, and firms’ environmental investment and abatement     (with Fuhai Hong)

​                        Environmental and Resource Economics (2019)

• Strong links promote the emergence of cooperative elites​​      (with Edoardo Gallo, Yohanes Eko Riyanto, and Nilanjan Roy)

                        Scientific Reports (2019)