Yimin Yu

City University of Hong Kong - College of Business

Assistant Professor

83 Tat Chee Avenue

Kowloon

Hong Kong

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Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

Robust Contract Designs: Linear Contracts and Moral Hazard

Forthcoming in Operations Research
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2021
Yimin Yu and Xiangyin Kong
City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
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sales force incentives, robust contract design, linear contracts, worst-case

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Price-Directed Cost Sharing and Demand Allocation Among Service Providers with Multiple Demand Sources and Multiple Facilities

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Aug 2020
Southern University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business, University of Michigan and Shanghai University - SILC Business School
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service collaboration, queuing systems, demand allocation, cooperative game, market mechanism

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Optimal Policies for a Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem with Service Time Target and Expediting

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2022
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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service time target, inventory expediting, decomposition, coordination

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Fleet Repositioning for Vehicle Sharing Systems: Asymptotic Optimality of the Balanced Myopic Policy

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2024
The Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies Limited, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Information Systems
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vehicle sharing system; fleet repositioning; Markov decision process; balanced myopic policy

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Offering Free Upgrades Even before Stocks Run Out: The Value of Proactive Upgrades

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management (DOTM) Area, Shanghai University - SILC Business School, Singapore Management University and City University of Hong Kong - College of Business
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free upgrades, proactive policies, reactive policies, dynamic programming, Markov Decision Process

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Incentives for Shared Services: Multi-Server Queueing Systems with Priorities

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2021
Hanlin Liu and Yimin Yu
Southern University of Science and Technology and City University of Hong Kong - College of Business
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resource pooling, shared service, multiclass queueing systems, priority rules, polymatroid, cooperative game theory

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Coordinating Dynamic Personalized Pricing and Inventory Decisions

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2021
Yi Li, Yimin Yu and Han Zhu
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and School of Management Science and Engineering, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
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personalized pricing, inventory control, dynamic programming, optimal policy

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Cyclic Pricing for Live-Streaming Selling: the Role of Herding Behaviors

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2024
Zheyi Li, Yimin Yu and Xiaoxiao Li
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences
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cyclic pricing, live-streaming selling, impulse control, waiting customers, herding behaviors

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Dynamic Multi-Product Procurement with Joint and Individual Setup Costs: Theory and Insights

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2023
Xiangyin Kong, Yimin Yu and Huihui Wang
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and Shanghai University - SILC Business School
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inventory/production systems, ($\mathcal K,\bm \eta$)-quasi-convexity, multiple setup costs, multiple products

10.

Dynamic Auction for Network Resource Allocation

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Sep 2020
Yimin Yu and Lina Bao
City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and School of Management, Zhejiang University
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network resource allocation; information asymmetry; dynamic auction; incentive compatibility; dominant strategy

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A Permutation-Dependent Separability Approach for Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory Systems

Forthcoming in Operations Research
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Jan 2022
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and University of British Columbia
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capacitated serial system, permutation-dependent separability, optimal replenishment policy

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Discrete Choice Models with Ambiguity Aversion: Product Line Pricing and Competition

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Nov 2023
Jingwen Lin, Yimin Yu and Qi Cheng
City University of Hong Kong (CityU), City University of Hong Kong - College of Business and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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discrete choice model, ambiguity aversion, pricing, robustness, Kullback–Leibler divergence

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Sell Probabilistic Goods? A Behavioral Explanation for Opaque Selling

Forthcoming in Marketing Science
Posted: 05 Feb 2014
Tingliang Huang and Yimin Yu
Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee and City University of Hong Kong - College of Business

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probabilistic goods, opaque selling, pricing, anecdotal reasoning, law of small numbers, bounded rationality