Mingfeng Lin, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Management Information Systems Eller College of Management University of Arizona Phone: +1(520)621-2684 Fax: +1(520)621-2433

Research Interests

Peer-to-peer lending, and more broadly crowd-funding Online labor markets Mitigation of information asymmetry in these markets, e.g. networks, word-of-mouth, contracts, and certifications Implications of crowd-funding and online labor markets for entrepreneurship Social media & online social networks

Education

PhD in Business and Management (Information Systems), Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park MA in Economics, University of Maryland, College Park MA in Economics, Peking University BA in Economics, Peking University

Publications

Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Friendship Networks and Information Asymmetry in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending (with N. R. Prabhala and Siva Viswanathan). Management Science (2013). Too Big to Fail: Large Samples and the p-Value Problem (with Hank Lucas and Galit Shmueli). Forthcoming, Information Systems Research.

Working Papers

"Popularity Effect" in User-Generated Contents: Evidence from Online Product Reviews (with Paulo Goes and Albert Au Yeung). Under review. Does Information Really "Unravel"? Understanding Factors That Motivate Sellers to Seek Third-Party Certifications in an Online Labor Market (with Paulo Goes). Under review. Home bias in online investments: An empirical study of an online crowd funding market (with Siva Viswanathan). Under review. Toward a More Informative Online Reputation System. Under review. Effectiveness of Reputation in the Presence of Contracts (with Siva Viswanathan and Yong Liu). Under review. Online banking and banking efficiency (with Hank Luas and Joseph P. Bailey). Manuscript in preparation.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Can Social Networks Mitigate Information Asymmetry in Online Markets? (with Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala) Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Information Systems Peer-to-peer Lending: An Empirical Investigation, Proceedings of the 2009 America's Conference on Information Systems Bidder Migration (with Wolfgang Jank), Proceedings of the 2008 America's Conference on Information Systems

Presentations

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Grants and Funding

McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, Cross-Disciplinary Research Grant (2013) (joint project with Yong Liu) NET Institute Summer Research Grant (2012) Co-investigator, Natural National Science Foundation of China International Collaboration Grant (PIs: Guoqing Chen and Hsinchun Chen) (2012) McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, Small Research Grant (2011) NET Institute Summer Research Grant (2010) Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellowship Grant (2009) Economic Club of Washington Doctoral Fellowship Grant (2009) Research Grant on Social Value Creation, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (2009)

Honors and Awards

Nominated for Best Conference Paper Award at the 2009 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), San Diego, CA, October 2009 Paine Award for Academic Excellence, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park; May 2010 Nominated for Best Conference Paper Award at the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Phoenix, AZ, October 2012

Current Courses

MIS 478, Project Management (undergraduate) MIS 513, Business Foundations for IT (MS in MIS)

Professional Activities

Associate Editor, ICIS 2013 Program Committee, INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) (2010, 2011, 2012) Track co-chair, Economics of IS, Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (2012) Co-chair, Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), 2011 Reviewer for Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the AIS, Production and Operations Management Journal, the European Journal of Information Systems, as well as ICIS, HICSS, PACIS and AMCIS

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