CUHK Business School

The CUHK Business School Inaugural Greater Bay Area CEO Forum arrives at a defining moment. As the National 15th Five-Year Plan launches in 2026, the region is set to shift toward innovation-driven growth powered by “new quality productive forces”. Yet escalating geopolitical tensions, supply-chain fragmentation, and the profound duality of AI make navigation more challenging …

Consumers face frequent and consecutive digital privacy choices, but each choice is not necessarily independent. This paper demonstrates that past privacy choices affect consumers’ current privacy choices. Such state-dependent choices suggest that privacy choices can have externalities within a platform in which one app’s data requests can affect the ability of other apps to collect …

Although people believe that all consumers should receive the same product at the same price, both price discrimination (i.e., charging different prices for the same product to different customers) and quality discrimination (i.e., offering products of different quality to different customers) are prevalent in the marketplace. This research explores how consumers perceive the fairness of …

This paper traces 50 years of English language tourism, hospitality and events journals. More than 280 tourism, hospitality and events titles have been published, of which some 220 are still active. Authorship practices have changed, with the near demise of the single authored paper to such an extent that it is now an endangered species. In …

When interest rates fall, mortgage refinancing is a key channel through which monetary policy reaches household balance sheets. Yet many borrowers fail to refinance even when doing so would yield substantial savings, creating a “last-mile” problem for monetary stimulus. We study whether mass-market television advertising by mortgage lenders can improve the pass-through of rate cuts …

Data-driven decision making involves estimating the value of each potential option and selecting the one with the highest estimated efficacy.  This approach underpins a wide array of modern marketing, operations, and AI applications, including A/B testing, advertising and bidding, pricing, and personalized targeting. However, several papers have shown that the estimated effectiveness of the chosen …

We are living in an era of major global conflicts, geopolitical upheavals, rising depression rates, and diminished global wellbeing. The time is ripe for accelerating and further developing global platforms of research knowledge focused on the creation of novel forms of capital, beyond financial capital. This research presentation will outline some pathways for building wellbeing …

The ability to coordinate market sides at speed and scale is a cornerstone of modern platform business models and resource allocation systems more broadly. At its core, market clearing involves two fundamental tasks: allocation and pricing. This talk develops primal-dual based approaches to tackle each task in settings that go beyond the submodular structure typically …