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Predicting the performance of queues–A data analytic approach
(Elsevier, 2016)Existing models of multi-server queues with system transience and non-standard assumptions are either too complex or restricted in their assumptions to be used broadly in practice. This paper proposes using data analytics, ... -
Preferences for lottery stocks at Borsa Istanbul
(Elsevier, 2018-07)We investigate the existence of lottery-like preferences of investors at Borsa Istanbul. Proxying these preferences with demand for stocks with extreme positive returns (“MAX”), we establish that high-MAX stocks’ significantly ... -
Premium e-grocery: exploring value in logistics integrated service solutions
(12.02.2009)E-grocery is gradually becoming viable or a necessity for many families. Yet, most e-supermarketsare seen as providers of low value “staple” and bulky goods mainly. While each store has a large number of SKU available, ... -
Price and quality decisions of a service provider under heterogeneous demand
(Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, 2019)A monopolist service provider's quality and price decisions are analyzed in a vertically differentiated market where customers demand different quantities of a service. We find that depending on the relative sizes of the ... -
Price of regulations: Regulatory costs and the cross-section of stock returns
(Oxford University Press, 2024-01)Regulations introduce significant fixed costs and add to operating leverage. Fixed regulatory costs that contribute to operating leverage should generate a risk premium. To explore whether such a premium exists, we introduce ... -
Pricing of national brands versus store brands: market power components, findings and research opportunities
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)Among the most important activities for supermarket retailers is the creation and marketing of store brands, also known as private label brands. Given the increasing quality-equivalence between national brands and store ... -
Private-label use and store loyalty
(American Marketing Association, 2008-11)The authors develop an econometric model of the relationship between a household’s private-label (PL) share and its behavioral store loyalty. The model includes major drivers of these two behaviors and controls for ... -
Product innovations, advertising, and stock returns
(American Marketing Association, 2009-01)Under increased scrutiny from top management and shareholders, marketing managers feel the need to measure and communicate the impact of their actions on shareholder returns. In particular, how do customer value creation ... -
Product market competition and the value of diversification
(Elsevier, 2023-12)I examine how industry concentration affects the value of diversification. I find that con- glomerates that operate mainly in concentrated industries (concentrated conglomerates) have higher diversification values. Using ... -
Production planning with flexible manufacturing systems under demand uncertainty
(Taylor & Francis, 2024)This paper delves into the impacts of an ongoing global crisis on the resilience of supply chains. Furthermore, it proposes measures to address and mitigate the disruptions caused by the prevailing uncertainties. For ... -
The productivity gap: Monetary policy, the subprime boom, and the post-2001 productivity surge
(Elsevier, 2015-03)It is widely believed that, in the wake of the dot.com crash, the Fed kept the federal funds target rate too low for too long, inadvertently contributing to the subprime boom. We attribute this and other Fed departures ... -
Professional school obsession: An enduring yet shifting rhetoric by U.S. business schools
(George Washington University, 2021-09)Over the past two decades, prompted in part by a series of corporate scandals, different views have been voiced about whyU.S. business schools have purportedly lost their originalambitiontobecomeprofessional schoolsand, ... -
Providing information for decision making: Contrasting description and simulation
(Elsevier, 2015-09)Providing information for decision making should be like telling a story. You need to know, first, what you want to say; second, whom you are addressing; and third, how to match the message and audience. However, data ... -
A prudential paradox: The signal in (not) restricting bank dividends
(Wiley, 2022)By restricting dividends in the weakest banks, prudential regulators counterintuitively induce more capital payouts in marginal banks. The potential for bank runs exacerbates the incentive to signal strength through dividend ... -
Queueing systems with rationally inattentive customers
(Informs, 2023-01)Problem definition: Classical models of queueing systems with rational and strategic customers assume queues to be either fully visible or invisible, while service parameters are known with certainty. In practice, however, ... -
Random mechanisms for house allocation with existing tenants
(Elsevier, 2020-08)We study the house allocation problem with existing tenants: n houses (stand for "indivisible objects") are to be allocated to n agents; each agent needs exactly one house and has strict preferences; k houses are initially ... -
Ranking the predictive performances of value-at-risk estimation methods
(Elsevier, 2012)We introduce a ranking model and a complementary predictive ability test statistic to investigate the forecasting performances of different Value at Risk (VaR) methods, without specifying a fixed benchmark method. The ... -
The real estate and credit bubble: evidence from Spain
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-08)We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on mortgage loans in Spain. The dataset contain real estate credit and price conditions (loan principal and spread, ... -
Reasoning types in Industrial Engineering/Operations Management processes
(IEOM Society, 2019)Operations Management/Industrial Engineering modeling process entails a series of research paradigm decisions to be made as to (1) what the reality domain is - ontology, (2) how the problem domain is to be defined and ... -
Reclaim-proof allocation of indivisible objects
(Elsevier, 2013-09)We study desirability axioms imposed on allocations in indivisible object allocation problems. The existing axioms in the literature are various conditions of robustness to blocking coalitions with respect to agentsʼ ex ...
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