With the rapid growth of e-commerce, financial products are being brought onto online platforms. However, due to the scarcity of data in this new product domain, online platforms face challenges in predicting users' purchase behavior. In this paper, we study whether we can "transfer'' knowledge...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused huge disruptions to the world economy. As a number of countries make progress in containing this outbreak, some of them have started to reopen their economy. We study the curves of recovery after reopening the economy, using a unique real-time dataset of daily...

Evaluating the returns to marketing spending and designing optimal budget allocations have been challenging tasks for businesses. New data availability and novel machine learning methods provide new opportunities to significantly improve such decisions. The goal of this paper is to prescribe the...