Research

Interests

I study incentive and information design problems in service operations management and in the platform-economy.

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).
  • Published in Production and Operations Management (2023). [doi][pdf][ssrn][slides]
  • Coverage at the LSE Business Review. [doi][pdf]
• An Analysis of Operating Efficiency and Policy Implications in Last-Mile Transportation Following Amazon’s Integration (with L. Wang and E. Rabinovich).
  • Published in Journal of Operations Management (2022). [doi]
• “Seemingly-Beneficial” Interventions (with M. Dawande and G. Janakirmanan).
  • Published in 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).
  • Published in 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).
  • Published in 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).
  • Published in Production and Operations Management (2016). [doi][pdf]