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Zhe Yuan

Zhe Yuan is an assistant professor at Zhejiang University. Zhe graduated from University of Toronto (Ph.D.), UBC (M.A.) and Peking University (B.A.). Before joining Zhejiang University, he worked at Alibaba Group as an economist. Zhe's specialty is Industrial Organization and Digital Economy with research interest in the data value and data privacy, economic impact of artificial intelligence (business growth, consumer behavior, algorithmic discrimination), platform governance (information design, search recommendation systems, platform mechanism design), and network economy (airline networks and telecommunication networks). His paper was published in top journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal-Microeconomics, Management Science, Information Systems Research and MSOM. He has a led NSFC (youth) project and participated in several major projects. He received multiple awards, including the 2023 The Chinese Economists Society "Gregory Chow Best Paper Award" and the 2016 European Industrial Economics Society "Young Economist Paper Award".

Zhe's recent study includes platform mechanism design and how AI adoption affects market participants. Zhe uses field experiment, structural modelling techniques to answer economic questions and also provide managerial suggestions to cooperative companies.