Zepeng CHEN (陈泽鹏)

My research interests are in the areas of operations and marketing / finance / information system interface. Using optimization, game theory and causal inference tools, I study how individuals and firms make decisions in business area. Specifically, I am interested in studying the economic and social implications of
  • Interface between Operations and Finance: Crowdfunding, FinTech
  • Interface between Operations and Information System: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Data, Learning, Open Source
  • Interface between Operations and Marketing: Pricing Strategy, Social Network

  1. "Innovation Against Imitation: How to Compete with Crowdfunding Copycats?" (with Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao and Fasheng Xu)

    • Under a major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
    • Accepted for 2023 MSOM iFORM SIG Conference, Montreal, Canada
    • Oral presentation at 2023 POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, USA
  2. "Duopoly price competition with quality improvement spillover" (with Xin Geng, Xiaomeng Guo and Guang Xiao), Naval Research Logistics (NRL) 69(7): 958-973.

    • Oral presentation at 2022 POMS China, Virtual
  3. "Quality Management and Pricing Strategies Against Copycats" (with Xiaomeng Guo, Yulan Wang and Guang Xiao)

    • Prepare for Submission
  4. "Reproducibility in Management Science" (Note: Member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration.), Management Science 70(3), 1343-1356.