In this paper I studied the optimal mechanism in selling information to decision makers with private prior knowledge about the payoff relevant state. When the underlying decision problem has a continuum of actions, the optimal mechanism will be a continuum menu of experiments with decreasing...

Women's participation rate in the high-growth entrepreneurship has been consistently lower than in other high-skilled jobs for previous decades. This paper aims to explain this unique persistent gender gap in both the US venture capital industry and the US entrepreneurial activities from the...

The entrepreneurial financing process is essentially a two-sided matching process between investors and startups. This paper implements two symmetric incentivized resume rating (IRR) experiments with real US venture capitalists and US startup founders to elicit their preferences for potential...

Dogs have become an essential part of many consumers’ everyday lives as well as their purchase and consumption considerations. This research investigates dog owners’ affective reactions to dogs wearing clothes and their purchase of dog apparel influenced by owners’ political identities. We...