Yan Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
Faculty of Business
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Email Address: yan.y.liu@polyu.edu.hk
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
Faculty of Business
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Email Address: yan.y.liu@polyu.edu.hk
Research Interest:
Employment:
Education:
Publication:
--2017 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention
Working Papers: (* denotes a PhD student I work with)
Funding:
Teaching:
- Revenue management and pricing
- Interface between operations management and marketing
- Social operations management
Employment:
- Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Assistant Professor, 2019-Present
- College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University
- Assistant Professor, 2016-2019
- School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- Visiting Scholar, 2015-2016
Education:
- Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Oct 2015
- M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 2010
- B.S., Information Management and Information System, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, 2007
Publication:
- Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs. Operations Research, 69(6), 1823-1841, 2021.
- Yan Liu, William L. Cooper, and Zizhuo Wang. Information Provision and Pricing in the Presence of Consumer Search Costs. Production and Operations Management, 28(7), 1603-1620, 2019.
- Ming Hu, Yan Liu, and Wenbin Wang. Socially Beneficial Rationality: the Value of Strategic Farmers, Social Entrepreneurs, and For-Profit Firms in Crop Planting Decisions. Management Science, 65(8), 3654-3672, 2019. (Authors are listed alphabetically)
--2017 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention
- Yan Liu and William L. Cooper. Optimal Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers. Operations Research, 63(6), 1307-1319, 2015.
Working Papers: (* denotes a PhD student I work with)
- Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. A Model of Credit Refund Policies. Under minor revision for the 3rd round review at Management Science.
- Ming Hu and Yan Liu. Precommitments in Two-Sided Market Competition. Under minor revision for the 4th round review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
- Jianghua Wu, Dan Zhang, and Yan Liu. Sales and Price Guarantees under Markovian Pricing. Under review.
- Meng Li and Yan Liu. Mental Accounting in Revenue Management. To be submitted.
- Yan Liu, Jingmai Wang*, Yulan Wang, and Dan Zhang. A Model of Coalition Reward Programs. To be submitted.
Funding:
- Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "A Model of Coalition Reward Programs", $523,990, PI, 01/2023-12/2024
- Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "A Model of Credit Refund Policies", $417,139, PI, 01/2021-12/2022
- Hong Kong RGC Direct Allocation Grant, $200,000, PI, 07/2021-06/2023
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Information Provision and Pricing in the Presence of Consumer Search Costs", CNY 180,000, PI, 01/2018-12/2020
Teaching:
- LGT 4101, Practice of Management Decision Analysis (Undergraduate Elective)
- LGT 5152, Information Systems for Supply Chain Management (MSc Elective)
- LGT 5122, Applications of Decision Making Models (MBA Elective)
