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Xing Hu

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics

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Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Dynamic Pricing of Limited Inventories with Product Returns

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Aug 2018
Xing Hu, Zhixi Wan and Nagesh Murthy
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist School of Business
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Dynamic Pricing; Product Returns; Online Retailing

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The Profitability Puzzle of On-Demand Carpooling: Pricing, Matching, and Route Compatibility

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper No. 2025/001
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2026
Xing Hu, Zhixi Wan and Qin Zhou
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and East China Normal University (ECNU)
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Carpooling, Ride-hailing, Pricing mode, Matching mechanism, Route compatibility

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Tokenizing Loyalty Programs: The Role of Tradability

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2026
East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) - School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, London Business School and School of Management, Zhejiang University
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loyalty programs, blockchain, tokenization, strategic customer behavior, marketing-operations interface

4.

Trust and Reciprocity in Firms’ Capacity Sharing

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Feb 2023
Xing Hu and Rene Caldentey
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Capacity sharing, trading favors, reciprocity, repeated game, imperfect monitoring

5.

Strict or Flexible? Cancellation Policy Design and Incentive (Mis)Alignment on Short-Term Rental Platforms

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 May 2025 Last Revised: 29 May 2025
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Houston Clear Lake, UBC Sauder School of Business and Texas A&M University
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Cancellation Policy, Short-Term Rental Platform, Hosts

6.

Revenue Sharing in Airline Alliances

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 May 2025
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business
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revenue management, capacity control, contract design, cooperative game theory, Nash equilibrium

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Token Design for Favor Trading with Dynamic Membership

https://www.xinghu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Scrip_System_First_Revision_2026-4-2.pdf, HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper No. 2026/030,

accepted to appear in Management Science

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2026
Xing Hu, Zhixi Wan and Qichuan Yin
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Statistics
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Favor-trading systems, Token-based mechanisms, Dynamic membership, Participant heterogeneity, Decentralized platforms

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Optimal Rebate Strategies Under Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 May 2025
Xing Hu, Shanshan Hu and Qing Ye
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, Indiana University and Tsinghua University - School of Economics and Management
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dynamic programming: applications, optimal control, inventory/production: policy: maketing/pricing Area of Review: Operations and Supply Chains revenue management, dynamic pricing, rebate coupon, heuristics, asymptotic optimality

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Set a Goal for Yourself? A Model and Field Experiment with Gig Workers

Production and Operations Management, volume 33, issue 1, 2024[10.1177/10591478231224927]
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Apr 2025
Xu Min, Wei Chi, Xing Hu and Qing Ye
Shanghai International Studies University, Tsinghua University, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Tsinghua University - School of Economics and Management
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self-goal setting, gig workers, field experiments, two-self model

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Monetizing Scarce Attention in Online Marketplaces: Decentralized Pricing, Assortment, and Endogenous Selling Fees

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Apr 2026
School of Management, Jinan University, Georgia Institute of Technology - H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
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Retail Platform, Competing Sellers, Assortment Planning, Endogenous Selling Fee, Multinomial Logit Model

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The Option Value of Flexibility: Auto-Ship versus On-Demand Competition under Input Price Shock

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Feb 2026
Wenqian Zhang, Xing Hu and Haiyan Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Southeast University
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Dual-Mode Selling, Retail Competition, Input Price Shock, Product Auto-Ship, Market Segmentation, Search Friction

12.

Invisible Influence: Credibility under Self-Preferencing on Recommendation Platforms

https://www.xinghu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Credibility-and-Self-preferencing_Xing-SSRN.pdf
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Mar 2026 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2026
Xing Hu
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Information Design as a Supply Chain Capability in Times of Turbulence: Deterring Competitive Entry

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute Paper 
Posted: 04 Mar 2026
Hunan University, Hunan University - School of Economics and Trade, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management

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Information design, Supply chain turbulence, Entry deterrence, Resilience, Bayesian persuasion

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Open or Closed: Charging Network Openness, Pricing, and Social Welfare

Posted: 26 Jan 2026
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information & Systems Management, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Nanjing Audit University

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electric vehicle, charging network openness, interoperability cost, social welfare, analytical modeling

15.

Breadth-Depth Tradeoffs in Generative Search under Information Pollution: Competition and Compute Externalities

Number of pages: 31
Xing Hu and Yifu Ai
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong
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Generative AI, Platform Competition, Information Pollution, Compute Externality, Resource Allocation, E!ciency Rebound

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Platform Governance in Generative Search: A Theory of Authority, Relevance, and Welfare

Number of pages: 42
Xing Hu
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Generative AI Search, Platform Governance, Market Design, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), Bayesian Screening, Social Welfare