3 papers
stat.ML2026
Poisson-MNL Bandit: Nearly Optimal Dynamic Joint Assortment and Pricing with Decision-Dependent Customer Arrivals
Junhui Cai, Ran Chen, Qitao Huang +2
We study dynamic joint assortment and pricing where a seller updates decisions at regular accounting/operating intervals to maximize the cumulative per-period revenue over a horizo…
econ.GN2025
AI as "Co-founder": GenAI for Entrepreneurship
Junhui Jeff Cai, Xian Gu, Liugang Sheng +3
This paper studies whether, how, and for whom generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) facilitates firm creation. Our identification strategy exploits the November 2022 release o…
stat.ML2023
Doubly High-Dimensional Contextual Bandits: An Interpretable Model for Joint Assortment-Pricing
Junhui Cai, Ran Chen, Martin J. Wainwright +1
Key challenges in running a retail business include how to select products to present to consumers (the assortment problem), and how to price products (the pricing problem) to maxi…