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. "The Role of Nearby Suppliers After Natural Disasters,” with Luk N. Van Wassenhove

   • Under 2nd Round of Review: Production and Operations Management

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

   • Major Revision: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

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

   • Major Revision: Management Science

4. “The Resilience Benefits of Store Brands During Supply Disruptions,” with Yasin Alan and William Schmidt.

   • Under Review: Management Science

5. “Too Small to Fail? How Store Size Shapes Nanostore Resilience in the Face of Disruptions” with Rafael Escamilla and Jan Fransoo.

   • Under Review: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

6. “Franchising Defrosts: The Impact of Ownership Structure on Service Availability,” with Yash Babar, Ulrich Laitenberger, and Florian Pethig.

   • Under Review: Management Science

Work in Progress

“Demand-Side Heterogeneity in Cash Transfers: The Influence of Planning Horizons on Food Consumption,” with Sze Eng Tan and Eirini Spiliotopoulou.

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

“Recommendation Diversity and Content Supply: Evidence from a Short-Video Platform,” with Ulrich Laitenberger and Jiaqi Zhu

“The Owner Has to Go: Coordinated Employee Activism as a Strategy for Democratic Preservation,” with Winslow Robertson and Benjamin Cole