Kimon Drakopoulos

University of Southern California

Assistant Professor

Marshall School of Business

Los Angeles, CA 90089

United States

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Scholarly Papers (9)

1.

Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing via Reinforcement Learning

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Southern California, Data Science and Operations, Marshall School of Business, AgentRisk, University of Thessaly - Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - 4th Department of Internal Medicine
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COVID-19, public policy, targeted testing, contextual bandits

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Optimal Signaling of Content Accuracy: Engagement vs. Misinformation

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 12 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Ozan Candogan and Kimon Drakopoulos
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Southern California
Downloads 736 (58,298)
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Social Networks, Misinformation, Fake News, Bayesian Persuasion, Online Platforms, Information Operations

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Persuading Customers to Buy Early: The Value of Personalized Information Provisioning

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2020
Kimon Drakopoulos, Shobhit Jain and Ramandeep S. Randhawa
University of Southern California, University of Southern California - Data Sciences and Operations and University of Southern California
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Information Inundation on Platforms and Implications

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2020
Gad Allon, Kimon Drakopoulos and Vahideh Manshadi
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Southern California and Yale School of Management
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information platforms, Bayesian learning, opinion dynamics, polarization

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Why Perfect Tests May Not be Worth Waiting For: Information as a Commodity

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 May 2020 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
Kimon Drakopoulos and Ramandeep S. Randhawa
University of Southern California and University of Southern California
Downloads 554 (83,754)
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Information Products, Information Operations, Epidemics, Testing

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Providing Data Samples for Free

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Kimon Drakopoulos and Ali Makhdoumi
University of Southern California and Fuqua School of Business
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Selling Data Samples, Selling Information, Pricing, Bayesian Learning, Brownian Motion

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Network Effects in Contagion Processes: Identification and Control

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-8
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2017
Kimon Drakopoulos and Fanyin Zheng
University of Southern California and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Networks, Peer Effects

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Interpretable OR for High-Stakes Decisions: Designing the Greek COVID-19 Testing System

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2021
Hamsa Bastani, Kimon Drakopoulos and Vishal Gupta
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Southern California and Data Science and Operations, Marshall School of Business
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targeted COVID-19 testing, human-in-the-loop analytics, supply chain design, empirical Bayes, LASSO, reinforcement learning

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Blockchain Mediated Persuasion

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2023
Kimon Drakopoulos, Irene Lo and Justin Mulvany
University of Southern California, Stanford and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Bayesian persuasion, commitment, information design, smart contracts, blockchain