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…
econ.EM2025
Network regression and supervised centrality estimation
Junhui Cai, Dan Yang, Ran Chen +3
The centrality in a network is often used to measure nodes' importance and model network effects on a certain outcome. Empirical studies widely adopt a two-stage procedure, which f…