Gaoyang Cai
Managerial Economics and Strategy
Contact Information
gaoyang.cai@kellogg.northwestern.edu
Faculty Advisors
TBD
Research Interests
Industrial Organization; Mechanism Design; Network Economics
Research Papers
Disintermediation Governance and Complementor Innovation: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com, with Xia Han & Grace Gu. Revise & Resubmit at Management Science.
- POMS 33rd Annual Conference;
- TIM Division Best Student Paper Award Finalist of the AOM 83rd Annual Meeting;
- Nominated for the SMS 43rd Annual Conference Best Paper Prize, Annual Conference Research Methods Paper Prize and the Annual Conference PhD Paper Prize;
- INFORMS E-Business, 2023 Best Paper Award
Coupling Information Disclosure With A Quality Standard in R&D Contests, with Jie Zheng, Jingfeng Lu & Qian Jiao. The Journal of Industrial Economics
Work in Progress
Recommendation Rule and Competition in Two-Sided Markets
Centralized versus Decentralized Bargaining in On-Demand Delivery Platforms, with Chongyan Sun & Yingkang Xie
The Freemium Pricing Strategy and the Opportunity Cost of Time, with Daniel F. Spulber
How Does Vertical Integration Affect Incentives to Innovate?, with Daniel F. Spulber
Stable and Balanced Outcome of Bilateral Bargaining in Networks, with Jie Zheng & Junpeng Xia
Teaching
Ph.D. course with Professor Isaias N. Chaves: “Static Optimization in Economics”, Fall 2022, Northwestern University
MBA course: “Crisis Management and Business Analytics II”, Fall 2020 and 2021, Northwestern University
Graduate course with Professor Jie Zheng: “Information, Contract and Organizational Economics”, Fall, 2018, Tsinghua University.
Undergraduate course with Professor Daokui Li and Professor Jie Zheng: “Intermediate Microeconomics”, Fall, 2018, Tsinghua University.
Education
Ph.D., in Managerial Economics & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, September 2020 – 2025 (expected)
M.S., Managerial Economics & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, September 2020 – June 2022
M.S., Economics, School of Management and Economics (SEM), Tsinghua University, September 2017 – July 2020
B.S., Economics, Nankai University, September 2013 – July 2017
Exchange Student, University of California Berkeley, January 2017 – May 2017