Knowledge that Transforms

This paper examines the challenges of deploying an AI pricing tool developed by Airbnb and explores possible solutions.

A global firm can strategically maintain or even leverage cultural distance despite it being costless to reduce because such distance fosters consumer cultural adaptation that boosts long-term profits, whereas cultural promotion, though not directly increasing willingness to pay, indirectly enhances profitability by deepening cultural appreciation, ultimately benefiting both the firm and consumers and suggesting that nonprofit cultural initiatives can align with profit-driven goals in global consumerism.

Using AI-generated headshots that vary only in femininity, a field experiment finds that consumers discriminate against femininity independently of gender identity.

This paper examines how digital platforms can maximize serialized-content revenue by balancing binge consumption and product exploration through hybrid release strategies.

How consumers’ strategic identity disclosure decisions under AI accuracy parity policy interact with firm’s AI recommendation and AI learning investment decisions.

This paper provides causal evidence that local social media news significantly promotes small businesses’ adoption of sustainable food innovations, with stronger effects in liberal-leaning regions.

Premium adoption in mHealth.

This paper proposes a representative ego network sampling method that controls sample contamination while preserving population representativeness for peer encouragement experiments.

This paper proposes a fundamental characterization of choice functions for flexible, data-driven demand estimation in differentiated products markets, accommodating endogenous product features and enabling valid inference on economic objects such as price elasticities