Biography

Zaiyan Wei is Assistant Professor of Management in the MIS Area of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.

• Liu X, Wei Z, Xiao M (2020) Platform Mispricing and Lender Learning in Peer-to-Peer Lending. Review of Industrial Organization 56(2): 281-314.

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• Wang Y, Goes P, Wei Z, Zeng D (2019) Production of Online Word-of-Mouth: Peer Effects and the Moderation of User Characteristics. Production and Operations Management 28(7): 1621-1640.

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• Wei Z, Lin M (2017) Market Mechanisms in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending. Management Science 63(12): 4236-4257.

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Network Size and Content Generation on Social Media Platforms (With Mo Xiao and Rong Rong), August 2020 (SSRN Link)

Experts vs. Non-Experts in Online Markets: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Debt Crowdfunding (With Mingfeng Lin and Richard Sias), May 2020 (SSRN Link)

Where You Live Matters: The Impact of Local Financial Market Competition on Banks' Response to Peer-to-Peer Lending (With Mohammed Alyakoob and Mohammad Rahman), May 2020 (SSRN Link)

The Battle for Homes: How Does Home Sharing Disrupt Local Residential Markets? (With Wei Chen and Karen Xie), May 2020 (SSRN Link)

Information Asymmetry among Investors and Strategic Bidding in Peer-to-Peer Lending (With Kai Lu and Tat Y. Chan), April 2020 (SSRN Link)

The Effect of Secondary Market Existence on Primary Market Liquidity: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Peer-to-Peer Lending (With Craig W. Holden, Mingfeng Lin, Kai Lu, and Jun Yang), April 2020 (SSRN Link)

Social Interactions and Bias in the Evaluation of Online Reviews (With Yinan Yu, Warut Khern-am-nuai, and Alain Pinsonneault), February 2020 (SSRN Link)

Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb (With Wei Chen and Karen Xie), September 2019 (SSRN Link)

Current Courses

Past Courses

• MGMT 58800W: Business Insights with Spreadsheets and Macro Programming (Weekend MBA), Spring 2018, 2019, 2020, Purdue University
• MGMT 58800: Spreadsheets and Macro Programming, Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Purdue University
• MGMT 38200: Management Information Systems (Undergraduate core), Fall 2015, Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Purdue University
• MGMT 69000: Empirical Methods in MIS (PhD), Fall 2015, 2017; Spring 2020, Purdue University
• MIS 611A (Guest lectures): Design Science Research Methodologies (PhD), Spring 2014, 2015, University of Arizona
• ECON 361: Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergraduate core), Summer 2013, University of Arizona

• zaiyan@purdue.edu
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