• Gu Dingwei

    Associate Professor

    Applied Economics

    Add: Guoshun Road Siyuan Building Room 338, Siyuan Building

    Tel: +86-21-25011086

    E-mail: dwgu@fudan.edu.cn

    Research Field: Industrial Organization, Platform Economics, Vertically Related Industry, Anti-trust

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    Academic activities and community service

    Journal Papers


    1.Dingwei Gu, Tian Lu, Yingjie Zhang, and Pinliang Luo. 2025. Higher risk, higher price? Investigating pricing strategy in two-sided p2p lending platforms. International Journal of Electronic Commerce 29(1) 155-182.  



    2.Dingwei Gu and Yangguang Huang. 2024. Agency model versus wholesale model. Information Economics and Policy 68 1-18.  



    3.Lezhen Wu, Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, and Wen Zhou. 2024. Creating a merger option to strategically prevent a merger among suppliers or customers. Naval Research Logistics 71(2) 174-188.  



    4.Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, and Wen Zhou. 2022. Proportional fee vs. unit fee: competition, welfare, and incentives. The Journal of Industrial Economics 70(4) 999-1032.  



    5.Dingwei Gu, Xin Liu, Hanwen Sun, and Huainan Zhao. 2021. Strategic insider trading: Disguising order flows to escape trading competition. Journal of Corporate Finance 67 1-17.  



    6.Dingwei Gu, Tian Lu, Pinliang Luo, and Chenghong Zhang. 2019. The impact of venture capital investment on the performance of peer-to-peer lending platforms: Evidence from China. Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies 48(5) 640-665.  



    7.Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, Wen Zhou, and Rangrang Bai. 2019. When is upstream collusion profitable?. RAND Journal of Economics 50(2) 326-341.  



    8.Wen Cao, Qinyang Sha, Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Xiang Shao. 2019. Sniping in soft-close online auctions: Empirical evidence from overstock. Marketing Letters 30(2) 179–191.  



    9.Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Wen Cao. 2019. SOEs as intermediation: Leakage effect under financial repression. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 53 349-361.  



    10.Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Yongmin Chen. 2017. Rating deflation versus inflation: On procyclical credit ratings. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 41 46-64.  



    11.Dingwei Gu, Xi Zhao, and Pinliang Luo. 2020. The signaling behavior of three-player games on P2P platforms. Systems Engineering——Theory & Practice 40(5) 1210-1220. (in Chinese) 



    12.LUO Pinliang,Dingwei Gu. 2018. Competition strategies and welfare effect of incumbent in OTT industry. Review of Industrial Economics (4) 13-29. (in Chinese) 



    13.Dingwei Gu, Lan Ding, and Pinliang Luo. 2018. Evolutionary game analysis on credit risk control in P2P online lending platforms. R&D Management 30(3) 12-21. (in Chinese) 


    Research Projects

    2022.01—2026.12, Member, Research on Scientific Antitrust Regulation in the Digital Economy, The Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China

    2021.01—2023.12, Principal Investigator, Antitrust and Upstream Collusion: From the Perspective of Compensation Constraint, National Natural Science Foundation of China

    2019.01—2020.01, Principal Investigator, Strategic Insider Trading: A Balancing Act between Information Flows and Trading Competition, Newton Mobility Grant


    Journal Papers


    1.Dingwei Gu, Tian Lu, Yingjie Zhang, and Pinliang Luo. 2025. Higher risk, higher price? Investigating pricing strategy in two-sided p2p lending platforms. International Journal of Electronic Commerce 29(1) 155-182.  



    2.Dingwei Gu and Yangguang Huang. 2024. Agency model versus wholesale model. Information Economics and Policy 68 1-18.  



    3.Lezhen Wu, Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, and Wen Zhou. 2024. Creating a merger option to strategically prevent a merger among suppliers or customers. Naval Research Logistics 71(2) 174-188.  



    4.Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, and Wen Zhou. 2022. Proportional fee vs. unit fee: competition, welfare, and incentives. The Journal of Industrial Economics 70(4) 999-1032.  



    5.Dingwei Gu, Xin Liu, Hanwen Sun, and Huainan Zhao. 2021. Strategic insider trading: Disguising order flows to escape trading competition. Journal of Corporate Finance 67 1-17.  



    6.Dingwei Gu, Tian Lu, Pinliang Luo, and Chenghong Zhang. 2019. The impact of venture capital investment on the performance of peer-to-peer lending platforms: Evidence from China. Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies 48(5) 640-665.  



    7.Dingwei Gu, Zhiyong Yao, Wen Zhou, and Rangrang Bai. 2019. When is upstream collusion profitable?. RAND Journal of Economics 50(2) 326-341.  



    8.Wen Cao, Qinyang Sha, Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Xiang Shao. 2019. Sniping in soft-close online auctions: Empirical evidence from overstock. Marketing Letters 30(2) 179–191.  



    9.Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Wen Cao. 2019. SOEs as intermediation: Leakage effect under financial repression. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 53 349-361.  



    10.Zhiyong Yao, Dingwei Gu, and Yongmin Chen. 2017. Rating deflation versus inflation: On procyclical credit ratings. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 41 46-64.  



    11.Dingwei Gu, Xi Zhao, and Pinliang Luo. 2020. The signaling behavior of three-player games on P2P platforms. Systems Engineering——Theory & Practice 40(5) 1210-1220. (in Chinese) 



    12.LUO Pinliang,Dingwei Gu. 2018. Competition strategies and welfare effect of incumbent in OTT industry. Review of Industrial Economics (4) 13-29. (in Chinese) 



    13.Dingwei Gu, Lan Ding, and Pinliang Luo. 2018. Evolutionary game analysis on credit risk control in P2P online lending platforms. R&D Management 30(3) 12-21. (in Chinese) 


    Research Projects

    2022.01—2026.12, Member, Research on Scientific Antitrust Regulation in the Digital Economy, The Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China

    2021.01—2023.12, Principal Investigator, Antitrust and Upstream Collusion: From the Perspective of Compensation Constraint, National Natural Science Foundation of China

    2019.01—2020.01, Principal Investigator, Strategic Insider Trading: A Balancing Act between Information Flows and Trading Competition, Newton Mobility Grant


    Academic Conferences

    2024.11, 第四届数字化改革论坛, 福州

    2024.10, 第六届微观经济理论论坛(2024), 武汉

    Case

    Dingwei Gu, BYD''s road of new energy vehicles, , 2023

    Dingwei Gu,Chunyi Zhang, The entry and competition strategies of immotor, , 2021