Robert Bray

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Associate Professor

2001 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208

United States

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1.

Why Do Automakers Initiate Recalls? A Structural Econometric Game

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2016
Ahmet Colak and Robert Bray
Clemson University, College of Business and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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auto recalls, dynamic games, structural estimation

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Observational Price Variation in Scanner Data Cannot Reproduce Experimental Price Elasticities

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2024
Robert Bray, Robert Evan Sanders and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management and The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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demand estimation, endogeneity, instrumental variables, pricing, promotions, field experiments

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Operational Transparency: Showing When Work Gets Done

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2019
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Operational Transparency, Package Delivery, Peak-End Rule, Empirical Operations Management

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Ration Gaming and the Bullwhip Effect

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Robert Bray, Yuliang Oliver Yao, Yongrui Duan and Jiazhen Huo
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Delaware, Tongji University - School of Economics and Management and Tongji University
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bullwhip effect; ration gaming; (s, S) inventory policies; dynamic discrete choice; empirical supply chain management; structural estimation.

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A Tutorial on Teaching Data Analytics with Generative AI

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2024
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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ChatGPT, large language models, data science education, generative AI

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Menu Costs and the Bullwhip Effect: Supply Chain Implications of Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Robert Bray and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
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dynamic pricing, menu costs, supply chain, bullwhip effect, empirical operations management, structural estimation

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Production Smoothing and the Bullwhip Effect

Bray, Robert L., and Haim Mendelson. "Production smoothing and the bullwhip effect." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17.2 (2015): 208-220.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 17 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2016
Robert Bray and Haim Mendelson
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business
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production smoothing; bullwhip effect; demand signal processing; generalized order-up-to policy; martingale model of forecast evolution

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Information Transmission and the Bullwhip Effect: An Empirical Investigation

Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2012.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2015
Robert Bray and Haim Mendelson
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business
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bullwhip effect, MMFE, production smoothing, bullwhip decomposition, demand uncertainty

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Markov Decision Processes with Exogenous Variables

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2018
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Markov Decision Process; Dynamic Programming; Relative Value Iteration; Strong Convergence; Exogenous Variables

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A Comment on "Using Randomization to Break the Curse of Dimensionality"

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2021
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Markov decision process, dynamic program, curse of dimensionality, random Bellman operator, random value iteration, empirical processes

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Strong Convergence and Dynamic Economic Models

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2018
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Markov decision process; Markov perfect equilibrium; strong convergence; dynamic discrete choice; nested fixed point; nested pseudo-likelihood

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Multitasking, Multi-Armed Bandits, and the Italian Judiciary

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Robert Bray, Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, HEC Montreal, University of Bologna and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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empirical production scheduling, multitasking, multi-armed bandits, field experiment, Italian judiciary

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Does the Multisecretary Problem Always Have Bounded Regret?

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Dec 2019
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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secretary problem, multisecretary problem, regret bounds

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A Disquieting Lack of Evidence for Disintermediation in a Home-Cleaning Platform

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2023
Ekaterina Astashkina, Robert Bray, Ruslan Momot and Marat Salikhov
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and New Economic School
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platform disintermediation, platform leakage, matching markets

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Unnesting the Fixed Point in the Estimation of Dynamic Programs

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2020
Robert Bray
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Dynamic Discrete Choice, Nested Fixed Point (NFXP), Conditional Choice Probability (CCP), Structural Estimation

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Supply chain, market growth, shipping speed, e-commerce, quality of service