Bo Hu Fudan University

Bo Hu 胡博

Associate Professor in Economics, School of Economics, Fudan University

huboecon@outlook.com

Research Interests

Intermediaries, Search and Payment

Publications

Marketmaking Middlemen

Pieter Gautier, Bo Hu, and Makoto Watanabe (2023)
The RAND Journal of Economics, 54(1): 83-103

A marketmaking middleman, who adopts a mixture of inventory-holding and platform-making modes, can emerge in a directed search equilibrium.

A Job Ladder Model of Executive Compensation

Bo Hu (2025)
Review of Economic Dynamics, 55: 101257

Assess the impact of managerial labor market competition on executive incentive contracts using a dynamic contracting model with moral hazard, search frictions, and poaching.

Working Papers

Middlemen, Liquidity Support, and Product Market Distortions

with Makoto Watanabe and Jun Zhang (2026)

Investigate how middlemen's provision of liquidity support to suppliers affects downstream market distortions.

From Cash to Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Impacts of platform-provided credit on market efficiency

with Han Han and Makoto Watanabe (2024)

Analyze the market efficiency implications when e-commerce platforms act as both transaction intermediaries and credit providers via Buy-Now-Pay-Later services.

Self-Preferencing and Welfare in Hybrid Platforms

with Hongzhe Huang, Zonglai Kou, and Makoto Watanabe (2025)

Examine the welfare consequences of self-preferencing behavior by hybrid platforms that simultaneously operate a marketplace and compete as a first-party seller.