- Senior Editor, Marketing Science
- Philip L. Siteman Professor of Marketing, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
- Chair of Marketing, HKU Business School
Before joining the University of Hong Kong, Professor Chan was Philip L. Siteman Professor of Marketing at Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University in 2001, joining the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis shortly thereafter.
Professor Chan currently serves as a senior editor at Marketing Science, a top journal in marketing. His research interests include healthcare, industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and marketing. Conducting various research projects in the domain of economics and marketing, he studies various types of consumer and firm behaviors, offline and online, using advanced empirical methods. His research has been published in top economics and marketing journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Journal of Marketing Research, among many others.
- “Marketing Strategy” (MBA/PMBA)
- “Empirical Methods in Business” (PhD)
- Healthcare
- Industrial organization
- Applied microeconomics
- Marketing
- “The Value of Logistic Flexibility in E-commerce,” (co-authored with Bing Bai, Dennis Zhang and Fuqiang Zhang.) Management Science, 2025.
- “Targeted Incentives, Broad Impact: Evidence from A Large Online Marketplace,” (co-authored with Xiang Hui and Meng Liu.) Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Volume 21, pages 493–517.
- “Avoiding Peer Information and Its Effects on Charity Crowdfunding: a Field Experiment,” (co-authored with Xiumin Martin and Zhengwei Wang.) Management Science, Vol. 70, No. 4.
- “Incentives from Career Concerns in a Contract Package: An Empirical Investigation,” (co-authored with Bicheng Yang, Hideo Owan, and Tsuyoshi Tsuru.) Management Science, Vol. 70, No. 9.
- “Collaborate to Compete: An Empirical Matching Game under Incomplete Information in Rank-Order Tournaments,” (co-authored with Yijun Chen and Chunhua Wu.) Marketing Science, Volume 42, Issue 5.
- “Pricing with Middlemen: Implications from Policy Experiments in the Auto Loan Market,” (co-authored with Zhenling Jiang, Yanhao ’Max’ Wei, and Naser Hamdi.) Marketing Science, 42 (5).
- “Digital Verification and Inclusive Access to Credit: Evidence from Equifax,” (co-authored with Zhenling Jiang, Xiang Hui, and Naser Hamdi.) Marketing Science, Volume 41, Issue 4.