Biography

Zaiyan Wei (CV on his Purdue page) is a tenure-track faculty member in the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He is also a faculty affiliate with the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning and Purdue FinTech Center. Before joining Purdue, Zaiyan was a research associate in the MIS Department at the University of Arizona.

• Chen W, Wei Z, Xie K (2022) The battle for homes: How does home sharing disrupt local residential markets? Management Science, forthcoming. Journal Link Media Report
• Chen W, Wei Z, Xie K (2021) Regulating professional players in peer-to-peer markets: Evidence from Airbnb. Management Science, forthcoming. SSRN Link
• Lu K, Wei Z, Chan TY (2021) Information asymmetry among investors and strategic bidding in peer-to-peer lending. Information Systems Research, forthcoming. Journal Link
• Alyakoob M, Rahman M, Wei Z (2021) Where you live matters: Local bank competition, online marketplace lending, and disparity in borrower benefits. Information Systems Research 32(4): 1390-1411. Journal Link Media Report
• Wei Z, Xiao M, Rong R (2021) Network size and content generation on social media platforms. Production and Operations Management. 30(5): 1406-1426. Journal Link Interview with Dean Hummels
• 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. Journal Link
• 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. Journal Link Media Report Interview with AEA
• Wei Z, Lin M (2017) Market mechanisms in online peer-to-peer lending. Management Science 63(12): 4236-4257. Journal Link Media Report

• Social interactions and peer evaluation on online review platforms: An empirical analysis (with Yinan Yu, Warut Khern-am-nuai, and Alain Pinsonneault), May 2022. SSRN Link
• Social Media Moderation and Content Generation: Evidence from User Bans (with Xiaohui Zhang, Qianzhou Du, and John Zhang), April 2022. SSRN Link
• Experts vs. non-experts in online crowdfunding markets (with Mingfeng Lin and Richard Sias), March 2022. SSRN Link
• Helpful or unhelpful: The role of voter heuristics in review helpfulness (with Yinan Yu, Dezhi Yin, Warut Khern-am-nuai, and Alain Pinsonneault), January 2022. 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

• Krannert Faculty Fellow Award, 2022
• Krannert STAR Supplement Grant, 2022
• Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2020
• Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Grant, 2019
• Best Paper Runner-Up, 12th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), 2018
• Best Paper Award, 11th CSWIM, 2017
• Nominee for the Best Reviewer Award, 11th CSWIM, 2017
• Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) Grant, 2016
• Nominee for the Best Paper Award, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2015
• Green, William I Fellowship, the University of Arizona, 2014

Purdue University:

• MGMT 69000: Empirical Methods, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022
• MGMT 58800: VBA Programming, 2017-22
• MGMT 38200: Management Information Systems, 2015, 2017-20, 2022
• MGMT 58800W: Business Insights with Spreadsheets and Macro Programming (Weekend MBA), 2018-21

University of Arizona:

• Guest lectures: MIS 611A Design Science Research Methodologies (PhD), 2014-15
• ECON 361: Intermediate Microeconomics (Undergrad core), 2013