讲座题目：Online Healthcare Platform Evolution: The Interplay of Bargaining and Network Effects

讲座时间：2024年9月23日（周一）  10:00-11:30

讲座地点：主楼317房间

报告人：楚军红教授  香港大学商学院

报告摘要：

Healthcare constitutes a significant and growing proportion of most countries’ gross domestic product (GDP). Online healthcare platforms, due to their scalability, have emerged as a powerful model to increase efficiency and accessibility. The speed of scaling depends on network effects, especially cross-network effects, among healthcare providers and consumers. These platforms typically use bargaining processes to induce healthcare providers to join, thereby leveraging their larger cross-network effects. We develop a novel modeling approach that combines the estimation of heterogeneous direct and cross-network effects and bargaining outcomes to examine the evolution of such platforms. We apply our model to data from a prominent Chinese online healthcare platform that connects hospitals and consumers for preventive health checkups. Our results indicate that hospitals exhibiting higher network effects extract more economic value from the platform. Conversely, hospitals with lower network effects gain less economic value. Furthermore, we pinpoint the sources of bargaining power for both hospitals and the platform. Through a series of policy simulations, we provide insights for the platform on how to manage its resource allocation across hospitals and markets to achieve its goals, whether growth or profitability. Additionally, we calculate that consumers on the platform also benefit monetarily, with savings equivalent to two hours of minimum wage earnings.

个人简介：

楚军红教授是香港大学商学院的市场营销教授，她于2022年8月加入香港大学。在此之前，她曾在新加坡国立大学商学院担任终身副教授和院长席位教授。楚教授分别于1991年和1996年在北京大学获得国际经济学学士学位和法学博士学位（人口学），并于2006年在芝加哥大学获得工商管理博士学位（市场营销）。她曾在北京大学经济学院担任助理教授和副教授，还曾在哈佛大学担任研究员（1998-1999）和密歇根大学担任访问副教授（2012-2013）。

楚教授是一名实证建模专家，致力于大数据的研究，特别是在结构性新实证产业组织（NEIO）领域进行定量研究。她的研究兴趣包括平台市场和共享经济、电子商务、社交媒体、P2P市场、零售竞争和网络。她的研究成果发表在顶级的市场营销和管理学期刊上，如《Marketing Science》、《Management Science》、《Journal of Marketing Research》和《Journal of Marketing》，以及《National Academy of Science (PNAS)》和《Nature Human Behaviour》等综合科学期刊上。她是《Marketing Science》和《Journal of Interactive Marketing》编委会成员。她曾于2011年被评为营销科学研究所（MSI）青年学者，并在2008年和2011年获得新加坡国立大学商学院杰出研究者奖。

由于之前的学术训练，楚教授也对中国的人口、环境和经济感兴趣。她的研究成果发表在《Demography》和《Population and Development Review》等顶级人口学期刊上。 

楚教授曾与淘宝、链家、康福德高、APM（新达城）、滴滴等公司合作进行研究和咨询。有关Chu博士的更多信息，请访问：www.chujunhong.com