Ilan Lobel

New York University (NYU)

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1.

Feature-Based Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Maxime C. Cohen, Ilan Lobel and Renato Paes Leme
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, New York University (NYU) and Google Inc.
Downloads 2,253 (14,596)
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online learning, contextual bandits, ellipsoid method, revenue management

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On the Supply of Autonomous Vehicles in Platforms

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 09 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2024
Daniel Freund, Ilan Lobel and Jiayu (Kamessi) Zhao
MIT Sloan School of Management, New York University (NYU) and Operations Research Center, MIT
Downloads 1,041 (47,013)
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Supply Chain Contracting, Ride-hailing, Ridesharing, Autonomous Vehicles, Gig Economy, Sharing Economy

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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 894 (58,058)
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Spatial Pricing, Revenue Management, Ride-Hailing, Strategic Supply, Market Design

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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 Zhejiang University - Service Science and Operations Management
Downloads 843 (62,951)
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Signaling Competition in Two-Sided Markets

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2023
Omar Besbes, Yuri Fonseca, Ilan Lobel and Fanyin Zheng
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 767 (71,378)

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Online marketplaces, Decentralized matching, competition, information 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 728 (76,488)
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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 647 (88,864)
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pricing, optimization, intertemporal pricing, price discrimination, strategic consumers, stockpiling

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Detours in Shared Rides

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2023
Ilan Lobel and Sebastien Martin
New York University (NYU) and Northwestern University
Downloads 644 (89,408)
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ridesharing, ride-hailing, matching

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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
Arash Asadpour, Ilan Lobel and Garrett van Ryzin
City University of New York, New York University (NYU) and Amazon
Downloads 612 (95,420)
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ride-hailing, ridesharing, market design

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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 516 (118,315)
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optimal mechanism design, dynamic mechanism design, dynamic private information

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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: 11 Dec 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 468 (133,067)
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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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Optimizing Product Launches in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2015
Ilan Lobel, Jigar Patel, Gustavo Vulcano and Jiawei Zhang
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 467 (133,436)
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new product introduction, strategic consumer behavior, technology products, noncooperative game theory

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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 434 (145,412)
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Preferences, Homophily, and Social Learning

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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 269 (243,484)
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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 153 (415,125)
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Social Networks, Learning, Homophily

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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 414 (153,640)
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Customer Referrals, Social Networks, Social Media

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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 395 (162,013)
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optimal pricing, strategic consumers, demand uncertainty, robust optimization

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Auction Design for ROI-Constrained Buyers

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Negin Golrezaei, Ilan Lobel and Renato Paes Leme
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, New York University (NYU) and Google Inc.
Downloads 374 (172,220)
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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
Christian Borgs, Ozan Candogan, Jennifer Chayes, Ilan Lobel and Hamid Nazerzadeh
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 323 (202,096)
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Dynamic Pricing, Service Guarantees, Strategic Customers, Nonlinear Programming, Dynamic Programming

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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 177 (365,696)
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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 176 (367,607)
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supply chain contracting, dynamic information asymmetry, inventory, dynamic mechanism design

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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 114 (523,876)
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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 90 (617,143)
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contextual optimization, online optimization, imitation learning, inverse optimization, learning from revealed preferences, data-driven decision-making

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Auction Design using Value Prediction with Hallucinations

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Mar 2025
Ilan Lobel, Humberto Moreira and Omar Mouchtaki
New York University (NYU), FGV EPGE and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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auction, hallucination, algorithms with predictions