Interests
I study incentive and information design problems in service operations management. In particular, a significant focus of my research are platforms and platform-enabled marketplaces.
Working Papers
Non-Profit Support in Education: Resource Allocation and Students’ Lifetime Outcomes (with G. Takasi, M. Dawande and G. Janakiraman). [pdf][ssrn]
Competitive Pricing in the Presence of Manipulable Information in Online Platforms (with Y. Yang and H. Li). [pdf][ssrn]
Publications
The Economics of Process Transparency (with M. Dawande and G. Janakiraman). Production and Operations Management (2023). [doi][pdf][ssrn][slides]
An Analysis of Operating Efficiency and Policy Implications in Last-Mile Transportation Following Amazon’s Integration (with L. Wang and E. Rabinovich). Journal of Operations Management (2022). [doi]
“Seemingly-Beneficial” Interventions (with M. Dawande and G. Janakirmanan). Production and Operations Management (2021). [doi][pdf][ssrn]
- Selected as “Lead Article” of POM Volume 30, Issue 10. [doi]
An Economic Analysis of Agricultural Support Prices in Developing Economies (with M. Dawande, G. Janakiraman and T. Rajapakshe). Production and Operations Management (2021). [doi][pdf][ssrn]
- Finalist, POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition, 2019.
Your Uber is Arriving: Managing On-Demand Workers through Sure Pricing, Forecast Communication and Worker Incentives (with U. Subramanian). Management Science (2019). [doi][ssrn]
- Second Place, POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition, 2018.
Optimal Policy for a Stochastic Scheduling Problem with Applications to Surgical Scheduling (with M. Dawande, G. Janakiraman and K.-S. Jung). Production and Operations Management (2016). [doi][pdf]