Publications

1.General Research Fund (GRF) - "Customer Data, Privacy and Search", AY2022-23

2.ZHANG Tianle, with Lok Sang Ho, Chun Tak Kwok, Kam Pui Wat, Francisco T.T. Lai and Spencer Li,  “Financing Orphan Drugs through a Blockchain-supported Insurance Model", Frontiers in Blockchain,  2022, Vol. 5.

3.ZHANG Tianle, with Ping Lin, "Product Liability, Multidimensional R&D and Innovation", Journal of Economics, 2022 Vol. 136, p.25–45.

4.ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Zhuozheng Li, "Experience Goods and Consumer Search" , American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, Vol. 14 (3), pp.591-621.

5.ZHANG Tinale, with Yucheng Ding, "Advance Selling Programs: When to Introduce and What to Inform Consumers", Managerial and Decision Economics,2022, Vol. 43 (3), pp.779-790.

6.ZHANG Tianle, with Ping Lin and Wen Zhou, "Vertical Integration and Disruptive Cross-market R&D", Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, Vol. 29 (1), p. 51-73.

7.ZHANG Tinale, with Yucheng Ding, "Price-directed Consumer Search", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2018, Vol. 58 p.106-135.

8.ZHANG Tianle, with  Yongmin Chen, "Intermediaries and Consumer Search", International Journal of Industrial Organization, (EARIE Special Issue),2018, Vol. 57, p.255-277.

9.ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Entry and Welfare in Search Markets" , Economic Journal, 2018, Vol. 128, p.55-88. 

10.ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Interpersonal Bundling", Management Science, 2015, Vol. 61, pp.1456-1471.

11.ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen, "Equilibrium Price Dispersion with Heterogeneous Searchers", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011, Vol. 29, pp.645-654.

12. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Shiyuan Pan, "Patentability, R&D Direction, and Cumulative Innovation", International Economic Review, 2018, Vol. 59, 1969-1993.

13. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Shiyuan Pan, “(When) Do Stronger Patents Increase Continual Innovation?”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,  2014, Vol. 98, p.115–124. 

14.ZHANG Tianle, “Patenting in the Shadow of Independent Discoveries by Rivals.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012, Vol. 30, 41-49.
 
15.ZHANG Tianle, with Lok Sang Ho, “Tax Reform for a Fairer, More Vibrant Economy", Modern Economy,  2016,  Vol. 07, 881-893.

Selected Working Papers and Work-in-progress

1. ZHANG Tianle, with Yiran Cao and Ping Lin, "Upstream Killer Acquisitions and Market Structure", working paper, 2024

2. ZHANG Tianle, with Yiran Cao, Yongmin Chen and Yucheng Ding, "Search and Competition in Expert Markets", working paper, 2022

3. ZHANG Tianle, with Yongmin Chen and Zhuozheng Li, "Consumer Search with Repeated Purchase", working paper, 2021.

4. ZHANG Tianle,with Yongmin Chen, and Michael Riordan, " Security and Connectivity" , work-in-progress.

Teaching

1. CLA9010 Social Problem Solving and Decision Making in the Modern World
2. IBF621 Behavioural Finance
3. IDE518 Industrial Economic and Policy

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