Research

My research studies pricing, incentive, information, and governance design in digital marketplaces, online communities, and access-oriented markets. I use empirical analysis, stochastic modeling, and game theory to understand how platform rules shape participation, service quality, and welfare.

Peer-Reviewed Publication

• Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations
  Neha Sharma, Sripad Devalkar, and Milind Sohoni
  Production and Operations Management
  
  Paper

Under Review and Revision

• The Empty Promise: When Do P2P Platforms Fail to Serve Advance-Booking Customers?
  Neha Sharma, Sumanta Singha, Milind Sohoni, and Achal Bassamboo
  Major Revision at M&SOM
  
  SSRN
• Rethinking Algorithmic Fairness for Human-AI Collaboration
  Haosen Ge, Neha Sharma, Hamsa Bastani, and Osbert Bastani
  Major Revision at Management Science
  
  Paper
• When Collateral Is a Livelihood: Sustaining Access to Productive Assets
  Vikas Deep, Neha Sharma, and Leann Thayaparan
  Major Revision at M&SOM
  
  SSRN
• Structuring Online Communities
  Neha Sharma, Gad Allon, and Achal Bassamboo
  Under Review
  
  SSRN

Preprints

• Generative AI Shifts Technical Knowledge Production Toward Recombinant Novelty
  Neha Sharma and Simin Li
  
  SSRN
• Partial Information in Fork–Join Operations: Evidence from Multi-Brand Cloud Kitchens
  Neha Sharma, Maya Ganesh, and Debjit Roy
  
  SSRN
• Scaling Sharing Platforms with Supply Constraints with Lease-to-Earn Contracts
  Neha Sharma, Milind Sohoni, and Achal Bassamboo
  
  SSRN

Working Papers

• The Winner's Curse: Why Optimizing Structural Models Overpromises and Underdelivers
  Neha Sharma and Hamsa Bastani
  Draft under preparation
• Selective Labels and Counterfactuals: Why Diagnostics Are Not Enough
  Neha Sharma and Hamsa Bastani
  Draft under preparation
• Dynamic Scheduling of Nursing Home Inspections Under Strategic Incentives
  Jong M. Lim, Ken Moon, and Neha Sharma
  Draft under preparation

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