Yonatan Gur

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Learning in Repeated Auctions with Budgets: Regret Minimization and Equilibrium

Management Science 65 (9), 3952-3968
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 23 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
Santiago Balseiro and Yonatan Gur
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Sequential auctions, online advertising, online learning, stochastic optimization, stochastic approximation, incomplete information, regret analysis, dynamic games

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Non-Stationary Stochastic Optimization

Operations Research. 2015, Vol. 63 (5), Pages 1227-1244.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2015
Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
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stochastic approximation, non-stationary, minimax regret, online convex optimization

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Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through Rates

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 2016, Vol. 18 (1), Pages 15-33. , Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-33
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2016
Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
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online services, dynamic assortment selection, data-driven optimization, recommendation systems, content marketing, digital marketing, path data.

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Optimal Exploration-Exploitation in a Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem with Non-Stationary Rewards

Stochastic Systems 9 (4), 319-337 (2019)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
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Multi-armed bandit, exploration/exploitation, non-stationary, minimax regret

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Information Disclosure and Promotion Policy Design for Platforms

Management Science (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 28 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022
Yonatan Gur, Gregory Macnamara, Ilan Morgenstern and Daniela Saban
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Information design, Bayesian learning, revenue management, pricing, platforms, online marketplaces

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Framework Agreements in Procurement: An Auction Model and Design Recommendations

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 19 (4), 586-603, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-24
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2017
Yonatan Gur, Lijian Lu and Gabriel Y. Weintraub
Stanford Graduate School of Business, HKUST Business School - ISOM Department and Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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Framework agreement, procurement, Auction, Bayesian Nash Equilibrium, mechanism design

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Sequential Procurement with Contractual and Experimental Learning

Management Science 68 (4), 2714-2731
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 13 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 03 May 2022
Yonatan Gur, Gregory Macnamara and Daniela Saban
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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dynamic contracts, procurement, incomplete information, quality experimentation, learning, perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Gittins index

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Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 20 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2023
Gad Allon, Joseph Carlstein and Yonatan Gur
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Ranking, Online Platforms, Education Platforms, Discussion Boards, Dynamic Optimization, Data-Driven Optimization

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Equilibria in Repeated Games under No-Regret with Dynamic Benchmarks

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2023
Ludovico Crippa, Yonatan Gur and Bar Light
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Microsoft Research, NYC
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Repeated Games, Incomplete Information, No Regret, Price of Anarchy

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Adaptive Sequential Experiments with Unknown Information Arrival Processes

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24 (5), 2666-2684
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022
Yonatan Gur and Ahmadreza Momeni
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University
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Sequential experiments, online learning, multi-armed bandits, transfer learning, minimax complexity, adaptive algorithms, product recommendations

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Smoothness-Adaptive Contextual Bandits

Operations Research 70 (6), 3198–3216
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 14 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Yonatan Gur, Ahmadreza Momeni and Stefan Wager
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and Stanford University - Department of Statistics
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Contextual multi-armed bandits, Holder smoothness, self-similarity, non-parametric confidence intervals, non-parametric estimation, experiment design

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Value Loss in Allocation Systems with Provider Guarantees

Management Science 67 (6), 3757-3784
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2021
Yonatan Gur, Dan Iancu and Xavier Warnes
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Woods Institute for the Environment
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allocation systems, worker guarantees, fairness, efficiency loss, worst-case analysis