Jihui Chen

Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Business Economics and Public Policy from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University – Bloomington in 2005. She joined Illinois State University in 2008 after serving as Assistant Professor in the College of Business & Public Administration at University of North Dakota. Her research interests include Industrial Organization, Applied Game Theory and Strategy, Applied Econometrics, and E-Commerce. Dr. Chen’s research work has been published in top field journals such as Journal of Industrial Economics and leading general journals such as Economic Inquiry, among other academic outlets.

Publications

Retail Prices and E-Commerce
Retail Prices and E-Commerce
Jihui Chen. © 2019. 12 pages.
This chapter provides a broad survey of recent literature on online price dispersion in the fields of economics, information system, and marketing, and offers a number of...
Retail Prices and E-Commerce
Retail Prices and E-Commerce
Jihui Chen. © 2018. 10 pages.
This manuscript per the author provides a broad survey of recent literature on online price dispersion in the fields of economics, information system, and marketing, and offers a...
Internet Prices and Price Dispersion
Internet Prices and Price Dispersion
Jihui Chen. © 2016. 12 pages.
Prices on the Internet
Prices on the Internet
Jihui Chen. © 2010. 10 pages.
In the pre-Internet era, consumers relied on media such as Sunday newspapers and flyers for product and price information. Such a search process is time-consuming and unlikely to...