A5060168480- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Open Source Software Innovations
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- AI in Service Interactions
- Digital Platforms and Economics
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Collaboration in agile enterprises
- Economic Growth and Development
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020-2025
Small Business Administration
2019
University of Washington
2017
Over the last two decades, online crowdfunding platforms have facilitated fundraising efforts to alleviate resource shortages across various sectors. As these become increasingly important channels for bottom-up mobilization, it is essential understand their vulnerability shifts in public perception caused by top-down, off-platform events. We examine effect of legislative signals on giving behavior context education. analyze how ratification prominent Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)...
Blockchain supports a variety of decentralized applications enabled by its immutable, decentralized, and trustless properties. However, there are no unifying criteria for blockchain architecture across the organizations business models. This variance has created complex diverse products. Costs in every economic exchange with partners associated two metrics: transaction costs due to market imperfections agency conflict interest information asymmetry an organization. To understand...
Motivated by recent developments aimed to address last-mile delivery challenges in rural areas of Indonesia and China, we develop a theoretical model study how lower participation barriers the e-commerce market. We analyze stage stations cost leveraging preexisting social fabric communities, including local stores, as well technologies such chat services virtual groups. Specifically, examine two models, decentralized with run independent agents, centralized model, similar one pioneered...
Global crises are inevitably accompanied by resource shortages, logistical and operational challenges. In this study, we examine how digital crowdfunding platforms can enable community resilience, help adjust to the sudden shifts in demand that accompany a global crisis. Specifically, whether public schools, which suffered severe shortages setbacks during COVID-19 crisis, were able generate critical support from online fundraising communities. Using rich, granular dataset compile multiple...
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The growing consensus that human intelligence and artificial are complementary has led to Human-AI hybrid systems. As digital platforms incorporating human-AI hybrids, platform designers need evaluate the influence of AI on judgment, how such systems perform. In this paper, we investigate: Are decisions influenced by agents in high uncertainty environments, as evaluating ICO projects? Under what situations humans able mitigate agents-induced errors? Our results suggest general, agents....
Over the last two decades, grassroots altruism, enabled through platforms such as DonorsChoose.org, has resulted in successful funding of innumerable and essential public school projects across country. While channels become critical fundraising mechanisms, there is an unintended possibility crowding out these sources by governmental initiatives which aim to shed light on, address resource deficits. In this study, with a focus on major policy announcements, we examine whether effect external...
Over the last several decades, education policymakers in United States have been making periodic efforts to address inadequacy and inequity public education. A prominent recent example is Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a devolution law which entailed decentralization of responsibilities from federal local governing bodies. In parallel, more recently, online platforms such as DonorsChoose.org successfully enabled school teachers directly solicit funds for classroom needs. While channels...
We study how digital crowdfunding platforms can help replenish the sudden economic deficiencies that accompany a global crisis.Specifically, we examine whether public schools, which suffered severe setbacks during COVID-19 crisis, were able to generate support from online fundraising communities.We shutdown of schools and shift learning in United States affected private on DonorsChoose.orgplatform.We find evidence that, after exogenous shock caused by stay-at-home orders, donations increased...
Our symposium focuses on the association between temporal individual differences and creativity, bringing together ongoing research which adopts a subjective lens study of creativity. We present four empirical projects that incorporate different contexts multiple levels analysis. Two contribute insights into how focus regulates leaders’ creative behavior in response to negative feedback (Fink, Richter, & Kim) leads distinct evaluations new products (Luan Kim). A third project investigates...