MENG LIU

Meng Liu

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Hello! I am an assistant professor of marketing at
Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis.​
My research is empirically oriented, covering topics in
​Economics of AI/Algorithms, Market Design, Quantitative Marketing,
Digital Platforms, Economics of Digitization
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Working Papers:

​1. "Designing Quality Certificate: Insights from eBay" (NBER working paper No. 29674) revise and resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research
Xiang Hui (WUSTL), Ginger Jin (U. of Maryland and NBER), and Meng Liu

2."Human-Algorithm Interactions: Evidence from Zillow.com" (NBER working paper No. 29880) 
Runshan Fu (NYU), Ginger Jin (U. of Maryland and NBER), and Meng Liu

​3. "Quality Certificates Alleviate Consumer Aversion to Sponsored Search Advertising" 
Xiang Hui (WUSTL), Meng Liu, and and Raphael Thomadsen (WUSTL)
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Peer-reviewed Publications:
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​1. "Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis" published in Management Science, featured article 
Meng Liu, Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford and NBER), and Jason Dowlatabadi (Uber) 
  • ​NBER Working Paper No. 25015
  • Media: VoxEU, MarketWatch, MIT Sloan
  • Best Conference Paper Award Runner-up, 2018 Conference on Information Systems and Technology

2. "Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform" published in Management Science,, featured article
Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT and NBER), Xiang Hui (WUSTL), and Meng Liu
  • Media: Washington Post, VoxEU, Slator, MIT Sloan, NBER Digest
  • Best Conference Paper Award Runner-up, 2018 Workshop on Information Systems and Economics

3. "Forecasting the Spread of COVID-19 under Different Reopening Strategies'' published in Scientific Reports
Meng Liu, Raphael Thomadsen (WUSTL), and Song Yao (WUSTL)
  • Our COVID-19 forecast website
  • ​Media: NBC, MedicalXpress, WebMD, US News and Word Report,  Salon, The Hill, BGR, HealthDay, DailyMail, The Times of India, UPI, Consumer Affairs, WUSTL theSource, Healio, among others

 4. "The Geography of Ridesharing: A Case Study of New York City'' published in Information Economics and Policy
Tom Lam (Clemson U.), Meng Liu, and Xiang Hui (WUSTL) 
  • Best Paper Award, Workshop on E-Business, ICIS 2017​​
5. "Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?" published in Journal of Management Information Systems​
​Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford and NBER), Meng Liu, and George Westerman (MIT) 

6. "Targeted Incentives, Broad Impacts: Evidence from an E-commerce Platform" accepted at Quantitative Marketing and Economics
Xiang Hui (WUSTL), Meng Liu, and Tat Chan (WUSTL) 

7.  "Algorithm Aversion: Evidence from Ridesharing Drivers" accepted at Management Science (Special Issue on The Human-Algorithm Connection)
Meng Liu, Xiaocheng Tang (Meta), Siyuan Xia (SJTU), Shuo Zhang (SJTU), and Yuting Zhu (NUS)
  • Best Paper Award Runner-up, 2023 MSI China Conference 
  • Media: South China Morning Post



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