Gad Allon

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

3641 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6365

United States

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Scholarly Papers (35)

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The Impact of Behavioral and Economic Drivers on Gig Economy Workers

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2022
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University and University of California, Berkeley - Operations and Information Technology Management Group
Downloads 4,230 (5,189)
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gig economy, labor supply, worker behavior, behavioral operations, empirical operations, incentives, sample selection

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Information Inundation on Platforms and Implications

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2020
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Southern California and Yale School of Management
Downloads 726 (74,891)
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information platforms, Bayesian learning, opinion dynamics, polarization

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Measuring Strategic Behavior by Gig Economy Workers: Multihoming and Repositioning

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2025
Gad Allon, Daniel Chen and Ken Moon
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 685 (80,572)
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Empirical operations, gig economy, behavioral operations, structural estimation, online platforms

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How Much is a Reduction of Your Customers’ Wait Worth? An Empirical Study of the Fast-Food Drive-Thru Industry Based on Structural Estimation Methods

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2011 13:4, 489-507
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Independent
Downloads 611 (93,244)
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service competition, structural estimation, operations marketing interface, choice models, queueing

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When to Be Agile: Ratings and Version Updates in Mobile Apps

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2021
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Northwestern University, Microsoft Research, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads 577 (100,219)
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Agile product development, Empirical operations management, Mobile apps, Online marketplace, Product quality and reviews, Product versioning, Sequential innovation, Structural estimation

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Does Social Interaction Improve Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Field Experiments on Massive Open Online Courses

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2017
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 563 (103,606)
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Service Operations, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Social Interaction, Education, Field Experiments

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Machine Learning and Prediction Errors in Causal Inference

The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jun 2023
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Boston College - Carroll School of Management, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
Downloads 555 (105,202)

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Empirical Methods, Machine Learning and Data-Driven Analytics, Causal Inference

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Managing Service Systems in the Presence of Social Networks

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2018
Gad Allon and Dennis Zhang
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
Downloads 501 (119,380)
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Social Network, Service Operations, Learning

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Managing Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy

The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 24 May 2024
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of California, Berkeley - Operations and Information Technology Management Group
Downloads 452 (135,082)
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gig economy, multihoming, structural estimation, applied generative adversarial networks, incentives, empirical operations, behavioral operations

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Understanding Customers Retrial in Call Centers: Preferences for Service Quality and Service Speed

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Kejia Hu, Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Downloads 448 (136,561)
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retrials; first-contact resolution; customer services; service speed and quality; call centers; empirical operations management; structural model

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The Reference Effect of Delay Announcements: A Field Experiment

Management Science
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Qiuping Yu, Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Downloads 400 (155,684)
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Loss Aversion in Time, Delay Announcements, Field Experiment, Structural Estimation

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The Impact of Size and Occupancy of Hospital on the Extent of Ambulance Diversion: Theory and Evidence

Operations Research, 61 (3), 544-562
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Gad Allon, Sarang Deo and Wuqin Lin
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad - Operations Management and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 400 (155,684)
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emergency department, ambulance diversion, empirical research, sample selection model, heavy traffic approximation

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Structuring Online Communities

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Neha Sharma, Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Downloads 390 (160,145)

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stochastic game, online communities, knowledge sharing, network structure

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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 Netflix
Downloads 384 (162,994)

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Ranking, Online Platforms, Education Platforms, Discussion Boards, Dynamic Optimization, Data-Driven Optimization

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Outsourcing Service Processes to a Common Service Provider Under Price and Time Competition

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Jun 2006
Gad Allon and Awi Federgruen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 358 (176,019)
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outsourcing, service, processes, common, providers

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Competition in Service Industries

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jun 2006
Gad Allon and Awi Federgruen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 348 (181,649)

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Competition, Service, Industries

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Information Sharing in Supply Chains: An Empirical and Theoretical Valuation

Management Science 61(11):2803-2824, 2015
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2017
Emory University - Goizueta Business School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 344 (184,550)
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supply chain, information sharing, information distortion, decision deviation, time series, forecast accuracy, empirical forecasting, ARIMA process

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baggage fees, airlines, operations management, revenue management

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The Mexico-China Sourcing Game: Teaching Global Dual Sourcing

Transactions on Education 2010 INFORMS, Vol. 10, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 105–112
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Jun 2016
Gad Allon and Jan A. Van Mieghem
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 324 (196,743)

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dual sourcing; strategic sourcing; experiential learning; inventory management; total landed cost;

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Bounded Rationality in Service Systems

Forthcoming, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2012
Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Downloads 283 (226,380)
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Behavioral operations, bounded rationality, customer behavior, queueing systems, service operations, social welfare

Competition in Service Industries with Segmented Markets

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jun 2006
Gad Allon and Awi Federgruen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 184 (342,639)
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Competition, Service, Industries, Segmented, Markets

Competition in Service Industries with Segmented Markets

Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 619-634, 2009, Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Oct 2011
Awi Federgruen and Gad Allon
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 99 (567,982)
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Price Competition Under Mixed Multinomial Logit Demand Functions

Management Science, 2013 59:8, 1817-1835, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-15
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
Independent, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 228 (280,742)

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marketing, competitive strategy, pricing

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Service Competition with General Queueing Facilities

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Jun 2006
Gad Allon and Awi Federgruen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 224 (285,664)
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service, competition, general, queueing, facilities

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worker poaching, passive recruiting, supply chain, capacity management, staffing

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On the Relationship between Price and Capacity Decisions in Inventory Systems with Stochastic Demand

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jun 2006
Gad Allon and Assaf Zeevi
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 208 (306,476)

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price, capacity, decisions, inventory, systems, stochastic, demand

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Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding in the Manufacturing and Services Sectors

Forthcoming, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3394225
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jun 2019
Gad Allon and Volodymyr Babich
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
Downloads 199 (319,410)
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New business models, Platforms, Entrepreneurship, OM-Finance Interface

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Global Dual Sourcing: Tailored Base-Surge Allocation to Near- and Offshore Production

Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 110-124
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2013
Gad Allon and Jan A. Van Mieghem
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Downloads 174 (360,671)
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inventory production, stochastic models, applications, probability, stochastic model applications

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How Do Delay Announcements Shape Customer Behavior? An Empirical Study

Management Science, Forthcoming, Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 15-63
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Aug 2015
Qiuping Yu, Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Downloads 150 (409,497)
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delay announcement; patience time; customer abandonment; structural estimation

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Cheap Talk, Inventory, Information, Availability, Signaling, Newsvendor

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Managing Customer Expectations and Priorities in Service Systems

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Aug 2015
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Northwestern University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Downloads 136 (442,669)
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delay announcements; heterogenous customers; priority queue; information asymmetry; cheap talk

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'We Will Be Right with You': Managing Customers with Vague Promises

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Oct 2008
Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo and Itai Gurvich
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Northwestern University
Downloads 129 (461,763)
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Nonparametric Estimation of Concave Production Technologies by Entropic Methods

Journal of Applied Econometrics, September 22, 2005
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jun 2006
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Downloads 97 (569,868)

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Entropic , Nonparametric, Concave, Production

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Skill Management in Large-Scale Service Marketplaces

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2017
Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo and Eren Cil
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and University of Oregon - Department of Decision Sciences
Downloads 91 (593,290)
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Service marketplaces, skill management, flexible resources, price competition, non-cooperative game theory.

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Price as a Signal of Product Availability: Is it Cheap?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Jun 2019
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Marshall School of Business - University of Southern California
Downloads 89 (601,331)
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Signaling Games, Inventory, Pricing

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Large-Scale Service Marketplaces: The Role of the Moderating Firm

Management Science, 58 (10), 2012
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Jul 2015
Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo and Eren Cil
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and University of Oregon - Department of Decision Sciences
Downloads 67 (704,980)
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Service operations, Fluid models, Asymptotic analysis, Large games, Non-cooperative game theory