Yanhao “Max” Wei
Hoffman Hall 306
701 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, 90089
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/yanhaomaxwei/
Phone: 213-821-9889
December, 2016
Employment
Assistant Professor, Marshall School, University of Southern California, 2016-present.
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 2016.
B.A. (Cum Laude), Economics & Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 2010.
Exchange, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 2009.
Research Interests
Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization, Networks.
Publication
“Credit Scoring with Social Network Data.” Yanhao Wei, Pinar Yildirim, Christophe
Van den Bulte and Chris Dellarocas. Marketing Science, 2016, vol. 35(2).
“What Can the Duration of Discovered Cartels Tell Us About the Duration of All Cartels?” with Joseph Harrington. Forthcoming, Economic Journal.
Working Papers
“The Similarity Network of Motion Pictures.” Yanhao Wei. R&R at Management Science.
“Airline Networks, Density Effects, and the Value of Links.” Yanhao Wei.
“Connecting People for Nudges: Designing Social Networks to Motivate Consumer Behavior.” with Pinar Yildirim and Joy Lu. Submitted.
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Awards & Grants
2016
Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economic Research, UPenn.
2015
Teece Dissertation Research Fellowship, UPenn.
2014
Grant, Wharton Social Impact Initiative.
2014
Grant, Wharton Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.
2012-2013 Xinmei Zhang Fellow, UPenn.
2007-2010 ISU Bocconi Scholarship, Bocconi University.
Presentations & Invited Talks
2016
Berkeley Hass.
2015
Hong Kong University of Science and Tech, NYU Stern, UCSD Rady, USC
Marshall, UCLA Anderson, Rochester Simon, 37th Marketing Science Conference, UPenn Economics, UPenn Wharton.
Other Research Experiences
2014-2016 Research assistant for Joseph Harrington, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania (NSF Grant: SES-1148129).
Teaching
2016
Marketing Fundamentals (USC undergraduate).
2012
Introduction to Microeconomics (UPenn undergraduate); Teaching assistant
for Math for Economists (UPenn undergraduate).
2011-2012 Teaching assistant for Microeconomic Theory II (UPenn doctoral).
Reviewer
International Economic Review (2014-2016), Conference on Information Systems and
Technology (2014), International Journal of Research in Marketing (2016).
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