Ilan Lobel

New York University (NYU)

Assistant Professor

Bobst Library, E-resource Acquisitions

20 Cooper Square 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10003-711

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (22)

1.

Feature-Based Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, New York University (NYU) and Google Inc.
Downloads 1,865 (15,200)
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online learning, contextual bandits, ellipsoid method, revenue management

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Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-25
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 27 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Omar Besbes, Francisco Castro and Ilan Lobel
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 786 (53,518)
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Spatial Pricing, Revenue Management, Ride-Hailing, Strategic Supply, Market Design

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Spatial Capacity Planning

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 13 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2019
Omar Besbes, Francisco Castro and Ilan Lobel
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 586 (78,296)
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heavy traffic, queueing, capacity sizing, staffing, spatial operations, QED regime, ride-hailing, ride-sharing, asymptotic analysis

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Intertemporal Price Discrimination: Structure and Computation of Optimal Policies

Management Science, Vol. 61, No. 1, January 2015, pp. 92–110., Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/46
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2015
Omar Besbes and Ilan Lobel
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 567 (81,529)
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pricing, optimization, intertemporal pricing, price discrimination, strategic consumers, stockpiling

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Employees versus Contractors: An Operational Perspective

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 18 May 2023
Ilan Lobel, Sebastien Martin and Haotian Song
New York University (NYU), Northwestern University and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 518 (91,240)
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Minimum Earnings Regulation and the Stability of Marketplaces

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2022
City University of New York, New York University (NYU) and Amazon
Downloads 475 (101,410)
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ride-hailing, ridesharing, market design

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On the Supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Open Platforms

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2022
MIT Sloan School of Management, New York University (NYU) and Operations Research Center, MIT
Downloads 456 (106,395)

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Supply Chain Contracting, Ride-hailing, Ridesharing, Autonomous Vehicles, Gig Economy, Sharing Economy

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Optimizing Product Launches in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2015
New York University (NYU), New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 414 (119,091)
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new product introduction, strategic consumer behavior, technology products, noncooperative game theory

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Managing Customer Churn via Service Mode Control

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-52
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2023
Yash Kanoria, Ilan Lobel and Jiaqi Lu
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, New York University (NYU) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Downloads 408 (121,121)
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Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; spatial delay; stochastic control; risk-seeking; risk- averse; L’Hospital-type rules for monotonicity; goodwill model; customer lifetime value.

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Detours in Shared Rides

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2022
Ilan Lobel and Sebastien Martin
New York University (NYU) and Northwestern University
Downloads 405 (122,193)
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ridesharing, ride-hailing, matching

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Information Diffusion in Networks through Social Learning

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Ilan Lobel and Evan Sadler
New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Downloads 396 (125,409)
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Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design and the Virtual Pivot Mechanism

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2014
Sham Kakade, Ilan Lobel and Hamid Nazerzadeh
University of Pennsylvania - Statistics Department, New York University (NYU) and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 383 (130,234)
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optimal mechanism design, dynamic mechanism design, dynamic private information

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Intertemporal Pricing under Minimax Regret

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2015
Rene Caldentey, Ying Liu and Ilan Lobel
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, New York University - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 365 (137,430)
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optimal pricing, strategic consumers, demand uncertainty, robust optimization

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Customer Referral Incentives and Social Media

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2016
Ilan Lobel, Evan Sadler and Lav Varshney
New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Downloads 327 (154,729)
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Customer Referrals, Social Networks, Social Media

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Downloads 287 (177,563)
Citation 11

Preferences, Homophily, and Social Learning

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Ilan Lobel and Evan Sadler
New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Downloads 217 (233,070)
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Social Networks, Learning, Homophily

Preferences, Homophily, and Social Learning

NET Institute Working Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2014
Ilan Lobel and Evan Sadler
New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Downloads 70 (549,136)
Citation 11

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Social Networks, Learning, Homophily

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Auction Design for ROI-Constrained Buyers

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, New York University (NYU) and Google Inc.
Downloads 282 (180,843)
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Return on Investment, Performance Buyers, Mechanism Design, Online Advertising.

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Optimal Multiperiod Pricing with Service Guarantees

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2014
Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England, New York University (NYU) and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 265 (192,534)
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Dynamic Pricing, Service Guarantees, Strategic Customers, Nonlinear Programming, Dynamic Programming

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Signaling Competition in Two-Sided Markets

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2023
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, New York University (NYU) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 180 (276,681)

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Online marketplaces, Decentralized matching, competition, information design.

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Optimal Long-Term Supply Contracts with Asymmetric Demand Information

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2016
Ilan Lobel and Wenqiang Xiao
New York University (NYU) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Downloads 153 (317,924)
Citation 11

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supply chain contracting, dynamic information asymmetry, inventory, dynamic mechanism design

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Dynamic Pricing with Heterogeneous Patience Levels

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Mar 2017
Ilan Lobel
New York University (NYU)
Downloads 152 (319,592)
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Dynamic Contracting under Positive Commitment

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 14 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2018
Ilan Lobel and Renato Paes Leme
New York University (NYU) and Google Inc.
Downloads 99 (439,961)
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Contextual Inverse Optimization: Offline and Online Learning

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Omar Besbes, Yuri Fonseca and Ilan Lobel
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and New York University (NYU)
Downloads 11 (939,114)
Citation 1

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contextual optimization, online optimization, imitation learning, inverse optimization, learning from revealed preferences, data-driven decision-making