Hong (Heather) XU Assistant Professor Email:hxu@ust.hk PhD 2010 The University of Texas at Austin, Information Systems M.Sc. 2007 The University of Texas at Austin, Information Systems B.M. 2005 Tsinghua University, Information Systems

• Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2010
• Research & Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005-2010
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Strategic Information Communication, Auditing, Supply Chain Management,
  User-generated Content, Online Reputation, Game Theory
   

PUBLICATIONS

• "Moderated Online Communities and Quality of User-Generated Content," Journal of Management Information Systems, 28, 2 (2011), pp. 237-268 (with Jianqing Chen and Andrew B. Whinston)
   
• "Audited Reputation," Economics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 3, 359-362, 2008 (with Jianqing Chen and Andrew B. Whinston)
   

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• "Reputation, Privacy, and Economic Efficiency in Virtual Worlds: An Economic
  Analysis and System Implementation," with Jianqing Chen and Andrew B. Whinston, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Paris, France, 2008.
   
• "Virtual Worlds, Real Economy," with Jianqing Chen and Andrew B. Whinston, INFORMS 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2008.
   
• "Moderated Online Communities," with Jianqing Chen and Andrew B. Whinston,
  International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Montréal, Quebec,
  Canada, 2007.