{"id":13,"date":"2025-04-02T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:03:39","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Revenue Management<\/h2>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3120544\">Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Impact of Platform Control Capabilities on Performance<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Philipp Af\u00e8che and Costis Maglaras<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/msom.2023.1221\"><em>Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management<\/em>, 25(5):1890-1908<\/a>, 2023<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>MSOM Service SIG Invited Talk, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5>[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4668867\">Operating Three-sided Marketplace: Pricing and Spatial Staffing in Food Delivery Systems<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Yiwen Shen and Yanwei Sun<br \/>\n<strong><em>Management Science<\/em><\/strong>, minor revision<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2024<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>[3] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4872681\">Information Design and Pricing in Lead-Selling Platforms with Supply Competition<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Yanwei Sun, Niloofar Zamani-Foroushani and Jiahua Wu<br \/>\n<strong><em>Management Science<\/em><\/strong>, major revision<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/3670865.3673447\">Proceedings of the 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC&#8217;24<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4906138\">Assortment Optimization and Pricing in a Queue<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Kalyan Talluri and Shixin Wang<br \/>\n<strong><em>Management Science<\/em><\/strong>, under review<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5>[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=5202068\">On-Off Systems with Strategic Customers<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Yanwei Sun and Chiwei Yan<br \/>\n<strong><em>Operations Research<\/em><\/strong>, under review<\/p>\n<h5>[6] Trip Radar: a Controlled Decentralized System to Enhance Matchmaking in Ride-Hailing<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Hongfan Chen, Anran Li and Quan Zhou<\/p>\n<h5>[7] Surge Pricing and Dynamic Matching for Hotspot Demand Shock in Ride-Hailing Networks<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Philipp Af\u00e8che and Costis Maglaras<br \/>\n<em>Manuscript in preparation<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>[8] The Price of Prestige: Exclusive Pricing and Selling of Luxury Bands and Resale Market Dynamics<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Anran Li and Rachel Q. Zhang<br \/>\n<em>Manuscript in preparation<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>[9] Information Design in Research Funding<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Anran Li, Wenqi Lian and Mengyang Lin<br \/>\n<em>Manuscript in preparation<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>[10] Information Design and Pricing in Dual-Queue Service Systems<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Shaoqi Li and Dongyuan Zhan<\/p>\n<h5>[11] LLM Competition and the Aggregator Economy<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Fupeng Sun and Wolfram Wiesemann<br \/>\n<em>Manuscript in preparation<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Supply Chain Management<\/h2>\n<h5>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=4154515\">Sourcing with Demand Updates<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Jiaqi Lu<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/mnsc.2024.04692\"><i>Management Science<\/i><\/a>, 2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Invited Talk, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3767670\">Dual Sourcing under Internal and External Volatilities<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Jiaqi Lu<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/msom.2024.0987\"><em>Manufacturing &amp; Service Operations Management<\/em>, 27(3):975-992<\/a>, 2025<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Invited Talk, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>[3] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3931027\">Combined Pricing and Inventory Control with Multiple Unreliable Suppliers<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Jiaqi Lu<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.orl.2022.11.013\"><em>Operations Research Letters<\/em>, 51(1):60-66<\/a>, 2023<\/p>\n<h5>[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3082943\">Dual Sourcing: Creating and Utilizing Flexible Capacities with a Second Supply Source<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Lijian Lu<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/poms.13715\"><em>Production and Operations Management<\/em>, 31(7):2789-2805<\/a>, 2022<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>2nd Place, POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition, 2018<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h5>[5] <a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3096735\">Synthesis and Generalization of Structural Results in Inventory Management: A Generalized Convexity Property<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Lijian Lu<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1287\/moor.2019.1001\"><em>Mathematics of Operations Research<\/em> 45(2):547-575<\/a>, 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Finalist, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2018<\/li>\n<li>MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Invited Talk, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>[6] Robust Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Fupeng Sun, Huikang Liu and Wolfram Wiesemann<br \/>\n<em>Manuscript in preparation<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>[7] Inventory Control and Markdown Pricing of Perishable Products with Waste Constraints<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Gah-Yi Ban and Molly Wang<br \/>\n<em>Work in progress<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Cases<\/h2>\n<h5>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/caseworks.business.columbia.edu\/caseworks\/ilumexico-built-assembly-supply-chain-strategy\">ILUM\u00c9XICO: A Built-for-Assembly Supply Chain Strategy<\/a><\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">With Awi Federgruen and Abigail Talcott-Schlaifer<br \/>\nColumbia CaseWorks, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revenue Management [1] Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Impact of Platform Control Capabilities on Performance With Philipp Af\u00e8che and Costis Maglaras Manufacturing &amp; 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