Publications

1. Barriola, X.  & Schmidt, W. (2025) “The High Impact of Disasters on Prices in Low-Income Communities,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(4), 993-1007. 

   • Accepted for EMPOM 2022 at the Wharton School

   • Selected for the Best Paper Proceedings at AOM 2022

2. Deshmane, A. & Barriola, X. (2025). “Frame by Fame: Content Creation on Short Video-Format Platforms,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(2), 479-495.

   • First Prize: INFORMS 2020 RMP Data-Driven Research Challenge

   • First Prize: Best Student Paper Award 2021 INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

3. Azar, J. & Barriola, X. (2022). Did the MillerCoors Joint Venture Strengthen the Craft Beer Revolution? International Journal of Industrial Organization, 85, 102890.

   • Featured at: INSEAD Knowledge

4. Barriola, X. (2022). The Effect of Competition on Product Removal. Marketing Letters, 33(2), 203-214.

Working Papers

1. “Spillover Effects of Retail Labor Disruptions,” with William Schmidt.

   • Major Revision: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

2. “Spillover Effects of Retail Labor Disruptions,” with William Schmidt.

   • Reject and Resubmit: Production and Operations Management

3. “Participation Trophies: How Owner Ideology Creates Sinecures,” with Winslow Robertson and Benjamin Cole.

   • Under Review: Organization Science

4. “Stalled Innovation for Technology-Enabled Food Waste Reduction: Policy Action to Overcome Implementation Bottlenecks and Outcome Uncertainty,” with Lauri Loikkanen, Jan Holmström, and Lauri Saarinen.

   • Under Review: Research Policy 

Work in Progress

“Are Nanostores Resilient to Disruptions?” with Rafael Escamilla and Jan Fransoo..

“The Role of Store Brands in Mitigating Operational Disruptions,” with Yasin Alan and William Schmidt.

“The Effect of Ownership Changes on Product Availability,” with Yash Babar, Ulrich Laitenberger, and Florian Pethig.

“The Owner Has to Go: Coordinated Employee Activism as a Strategy for Defending Multiracial Democracy,” with Winslow Robertson and Benjamin Cole.

“Bilateral Collaboration vs. Bilateral Tension: How Geopolitics Shapes Global Innovation,” with Yimeng Niu.

“Markets Under Fire: How Political Violence Affects Microenterprise Resilience in Emerging Markets,” with Alp Sungu and Canberk Ucel.