Assaf Zeevi

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations

Assistant Professor

New York, NY

United States

http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/azeevi/

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

Beyond Correlation: Extreme Co-Movements between Financial Assets

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Jul 2002
Assaf Zeevi and Roy Mashal
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Lehman Brothers, New York
Downloads 1,634 (24,218)
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asset returns, extreme co-movements, copulas, dependence modeling, hypothesis testing, international markets, pseudo-likelihood, portfolio models, risk management

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On the (Surprising) Sufficiency of Linear Models for Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12-5
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 1,098 (43,622)
Citation 61

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model misspecification, inference, price optimization, revenue management, myopic pricing

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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, Netflix and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 958 (52,824)
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stochastic approximation, non-stationary, minimax regret, online convex optimization

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Dynamic Pricing with an Unknown Demand Model: Asymptotically Optimal Semi-Myopic Policies

Operations Research, Vol. 62, No. 5, September-October 2014, pp. 1142-1167, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-30
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2018
N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 878 (59,545)
Citation 83

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Revenue management, pricing, sequential estimation, exploration-exploitation

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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, Netflix and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 867 (60,690)
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online services, dynamic assortment selection, data-driven optimization, recommendation systems, content marketing, digital marketing, path data.

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Dynamic Pricing Without Knowing the Demand Function: Risk Bounds and Near-Optimal Algorithms

Operations Research, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1407-1420, November-December 2009, Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Oct 2011
Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 702 (80,172)
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Dynamic Pricing with Online Reviews

Management Science
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 23 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Dongwook Shin, Stefano Vaccari and Assaf Zeevi
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Enel S.p.A. and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 682 (83,307)
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dynamic pricing, online reviews, social learning, dynamic control

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Chasing Demand: Learning and Earning in a Changing Environment

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 42, No. 2, May 2017, pp. 277-307
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018
N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 617 (94,514)
Citation 46

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Revenue management, pricing, sequential estimation, exploration-exploitation, regret

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Product Quality and Information Sharing in the Presence of Reviews

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2023
Dongwook Shin and Assaf Zeevi
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 541 (111,642)

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information sharing; product quality, product reviews

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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, Netflix and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 488 (126,928)
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Multi-armed bandit, exploration/exploitation, non-stationary, minimax regret

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Bayesian Dynamic Pricing Policies: Learning and Earning Under a Binary Prior Distribution

Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2012, pp. 570-586
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 445 (141,505)
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Revenue management, pricing, estimation, Bayesian learning, exploration-exploitation

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Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 162-183, Winter 2010 , Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 11-18
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Oct 2011
Omar Besbes, Robert Phillips and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 413 (154,229)
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Portfolio Credit Risk with Extremal Dependence

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Jul 2005
Achal Bassamboo, Sandeep Juneja and Assaf Zeevi
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 304 (216,026)
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Portfolio, credit, asymptotics, simulation, importance sampling, rare events, risk management

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Learning to Ask the Right Questions: A Multi-armed Bandits Approach

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 06 Mar 2023
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Students, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 284 (232,113)

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adaptive testing, multi-arm bandits, best arm identification, adaptive algorithms, Gaussian approximation

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Optimal Price and Delay Differentiation in Queueing Systems

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Jul 2013
Costis Maglaras, John Yao and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 247 (267,434)
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service differentiation, pricing, revenue management, damaged goods, queueing games, many-server limits

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On the Minimax Complexity of Pricing in a Changing Environment

Operations Research, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 66-79, 2011, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12-6
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Jan 2012
Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 220 (299,328)
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pricing, nonstationary demand, estimation, detection, change-point, price experimentation

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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 210 (312,869)

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

18.

Blind Network Revenue Management

Operations Research, 2012, 60(6):1537-1550
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Dec 2014
Omar Besbes and Assaf Zeevi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 208 (315,704)
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revenue management; network; pricing; nonparametric estimation; minimax; learning; asymptotic optimality; curse of dimensionality

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Feature Misspecification in Sequential Learning Problems

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 10 May 2023
Dohyun Ahn, Dongwook Shin and Assaf Zeevi
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 196 (333,736)
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sequential learning; ordinal optimization; model misspecification; maximum likelihood estimation

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On Incomplete Learning and Certainty-Equivalence Control

Operations Research, Vol. 66, No. 4, July-August 2018, pp. 1136-1167, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-63
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2018
N. Bora Keskin and Assaf Zeevi
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 169 (381,478)
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Dynamic Control, Sequential Estimation, Certainty Equivalence, Incomplete Learning

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On a Data-Driven Method for Staffing Large Call Centers

Operations Research 57, no. 3: 417-726.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Achal Bassamboo and Assaf Zeevi
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
Downloads 83 (649,131)
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Pointwise Stationary Fluid Models for Stochastic Processing Networks

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 70-89, Winter 2009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Stanford Graduate School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations
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Woodroofe's One-Armed Bandit Problem Revisited

Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 1603-1633, 2009
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Assaf Zeevi and Alexander Goldenshluger
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Downloads 39 (953,989)
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