Yan Xu

Biography

Yan Xu is an Assistant Professor at the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. Yan holds a Ph.D. degree in Marketing and an M.Phil. degree in Economics from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Yan's research is broadly in quantitative marketing and empirical industrial organization.

Research Interests

• Keywords: Platforms/two-sided Markets, Team Assignment Algorithm, Teamwork, Consumer and Firm Learning, Time Use
• Methodologies: Structural Econometrics, Stochastic Block Models, Reinforcement Learning

Publications and papers under review

“Heterogeneous Complementarity and Team Design: The Case of Real Estate Agents”, Yan Xu, Mandy Hu, Junhong Chu, and Andrew Ching, Forthcoming, Marketing Science

“Vulnerability to Natural Disasters and Sustainable Consumption: Unraveling Political and Regional Differences”, Rebecca Chae, Rafay Siddiqui, and Yan Xu, Accepted, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

“Consumer Time Budgets and The Nature of Grocery”, Bart Bronnenberg, Tobias Klein and Yan Xu, Management Science (2023)

“Entrepreneurial Learning and Disincentives in Crowdfunding Markets”, Yan Xu and Jian Ni, Management Science (2022)