I am an economist working at the intersection between economics and marketing. I am a Professor of Marketing at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. I am also an Amazon Scholar and former Principal Economist of Amazon's Stores Economics and Science team (SEAS, formerly Core AI).

Song Yao is a Professor of Marketing at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. He also serves as an Amazon Scholar and is a former Principal Economist at Amazon’s Stores Economics and Science group (SEAS, formerly Core AI).

In this week's episode of Space Minds meet Yao Song, a Chinese entrepreneur and CEO of Orienspace. Raised in a Communist revolution, Orienspace’s founder now...

My primary research area is in molecular and genetic cancer epidemiology, with a special focus on molecular and genomic characterization in racial/ethnic minority populations.

Does Online Word-of-Mouth Increase Demand? (and How?) Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

2025年4月1日 · In October 2021, Yao Song has a new identity - co-founder and co-CEO of Oriental Space, a private rocket company that has received investments from Sequoia China, Matrix Partners China, Sany Heavy Industry, Mihoyo and other institutions.

Yao, Song, and Yuxin Chen, “The Value of Structural Estimates for Consumer Search Models.” Awarded annually by the American Marketing Association Foundation for the paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research and with the most potential to contribute to the practice of marketing research.

Yao Song. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Verified email at umich.edu. Biostatistics. Articles Cited by Public access Co-authors. ... JN Fahmy, Y Song, L Wang, KC Chung. JAMA network open 6 (7), e2325487-e2325487, 2023. 5: 2023: Multiobjective tree-based reinforcement learning for estimating tolerant dynamic treatment regimes. Y Song, L Wang ...

Yao, Song and Carl F. Mela (2011), “A Dynamic Model of Sponsored Search Advertising,” Marketing Science, 30 (3), pp. 447-468. o Winner, 2009 AMA John A. Howard Award o Finalist, 2011 INFORMS John D.C. Little Best Paper Award. o Finalist, 2011, 2012 INFORMS Frank M. Bass Best Dissertation Paper Award. o Finalist, 2019 INFORMS Long Term ...