Yan Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
Faculty of Business
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email address: yan.y.liu@polyu.edu.hk
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
Faculty of Business
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email address: yan.y.liu@polyu.edu.hk
Research Interests:
Employment:
Education:
Publications:
--2017 MSOM Sustainable OM SIG Conference
Working Papers:
Funds:
- 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, Dec 2019-Present
- College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University
- Assistant Professor, Oct 2016-Nov 2019
- School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
- Visiting Scholar, Oct 2015-Sep 2016
Education:
- Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sep 2015
- M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, July 2010
- B.S., Information Management and Information System, Beijing Information Technology Institute, July 2007
Publications:
- 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 MSOM Sustainable OM SIG Conference
- Yan Liu and William L. Cooper. Optimal Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers. Operations Research, 63(6), 1307-1319, 2015.
Working Papers:
- Jianghua Wu, Dan Zhang, and Yan Liu. Sales and Price Guarantees under Markovian Pricing. 2020.
- Yan Liu, Wenbin Wang, and Dan Zhang. A Model of Credit Refund Policies. 2020.
- Ming Hu and Yan Liu. Precommitments in Two-Sided Market Competition. 2020.
- Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs. 2018.
Funds:
- Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "A Model of Credit Refund Policy", $417,139, PI, 2021-2022
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Information Provision and Pricing in the Presence of Consumer Search Costs", CNY 180,000, PI, 2018-2020
- Faculty Initiation Grant, Tianjin University, CNY 80,000, PI
