S. Alex Yang

 


            

Associate Professor
Management Science and Operations
London Business School

Ph.D., MBA, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
M.S., Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Northwestern University
B. Eng, Automation, Tsinghua University

Contact information
London Business School
Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, UK
E-mail: sayang@london.edu
Phone: +44 (0) 207 000 8806
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Research Interests

My primary research interest is on the interface of Operations Management and Finance. Specific topics include:

·       Supply Chain Finance

·       Managing operations under financial constraints

·       Financial Technology, Financial Innovation, and Financial Inclusion

My other research interests include supply chain management, risk management, business analytics, and platform economy.

Current Research

Inventory Financing under RAROC Criterion, with Yuxuan Zhang, Pingke Li and Simin Huang, under review. (Download)  

 

Platform Tokenization: Financing, Governance, and Moral Hazard, with Jiri Chod and Nikolaos Trichakis, under review. (Download)  

 

Financing Inventory under Bank Capital Regulation and Seller Orchestration, with Yuxuan Zhang and Simin Huang, under revision. (Download)  

 

Financial Pooling in a Supply Chain, with Ming Hu and Qu Qian, under revision. (Download)  

 

The Impact of Trade Credit Provision on Retail Inventory: An Empirical Investigation Using Synthetic Control, with Christopher J. Chen and Nitish Jain, under revision. (Download)  

 

Crowd-judging, with Angela Huyue Zhang, working paper.  

 

Financing through Advance Selling, with Yiangos Papanastasiou and Shuang Xiao, in preparation.  

 

The Financial Holding Cost of Inventory, with Lei Xie, in preparation.   

 

Trade Credit in Supply Chains: Multiple Creditors and Priority Rules, with John R. Birge. (Download)

Publications

Trade Credit Insurance: Operational Value and Contract Choice, with Nitin Bakshi and Christopher J. Chen, Management Science, forthcoming. (Download)  

 

Trade Credit and Supplier Competition, with Jiri Chod and Evgeny Lyandres, Journal of Financial Economics, 131(2), 484-505. (Download)

 

Trade Credit, Risk Sharing, and Inventory Financing Portfolios, with John Birge, Management Science, 64(8), 3667-3689. (Download)

-        Earlier version titled: How Inventory is (Should be) Financed: Trade Credit in Supply Chains with Demand Uncertainty and Costs of Financial Distress

 

Sourcing from Suppliers with Financial Constraints and Performance Risk, with Christopher S. Tang and Jing Wu, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 20(1), 70-84. (Download)

 

When Customers Anticipate Liquidation Sales: Managing Operations under Financial Distress, with John Birge, Rodney Parker, and Michelle X. Wu, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 19(4), 657-673. (Download)

 

Trade Credit in Competition: A Horizontal Benefit, with Heikki Peura and Guoming Lai, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 19(2), 263-289. (Download)

-        Featured at MSOM Review Blog: Can Lending to Customers Soften Horizontal Competition? (Link)

 

The Supply Chain Effects of Bankruptcy, with John Birge and Rodney Parker, Management Science, 61(10), 2320–2338. (Download)

 

A Model for Tax Advantages of Portfolios with Many Assets, with John Birge, Journal of Banking and Finance, 31, 3269–3290.

 

 

 


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