Marcelo Olivares

University of Chile

Pío Nono Nº1, Providencia

Santiago, R. Metropolitana 7520421

Chile

University of Chile - Engineering Department

Republica 701 Santiago

Chile

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1.

Measuring the Effect of Queues on Customer Purchases

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/23
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 26 May 2011 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2012
Yina Lu, Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares and Ariel Schilkrut
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Universidad de Chile, University of Chile and SCOPIX
Downloads 1,814 (16,497)
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queuing, service operations, retail, choice modeling, empirical research, operations/marketing interface

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Does Adding Inventory Increase Sales? Evidence of a Scarcity Effect in U.S. Automobile Dealerships

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2017
Gerard P Cachon, Santiago Gallino and Marcelo Olivares
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Chile
Downloads 1,187 (31,220)
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Supply chain management, applied econometrics, instrumental variables, inventory management, automobile industry

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Severe Weather and Automobile Assembly Productivity

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/37
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2012
Gerard P Cachon, Santiago Gallino and Marcelo Olivares
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Chile
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operations management, productivity, econometrics, automobile industry, weather, climate change

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The Social Divide of Social Distancing: Shelter-in-Place Behavior in Santiago during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2021
Aldo Carranza, Marcel Goic, Eduardo Lara, Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Julio Covarrubia, Cristian Escobedo, Natalia Jara and Leonardo J. Basso
Stanford University, University of Chile - Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, University of Chile, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTEL), University of Chile, Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTEL) and Universidad de Chile - Civil Engineering Department
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Lockdowns, Mobility, Pandemic, Socioeconomic Heterogeneity

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Drivers of Finished Goods Inventory Performance in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2012
Gerard P Cachon and Marcelo Olivares
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Chile
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Empirical, supply chain management, product variety, inventory theory, manufacturing flexibility

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2011
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares, Eric Bradlow, Christian Terwiesch and Daniel Corsten
Universidad de Chile, University of Chile, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, affiliation not provided to SSRN and IE Business School - IE University
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choice models, retailing, out-of-stocks, inventory management, Bayesian methods, data augmentation, aggregate demand estimation

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Labor Planning and Shift Scheduling in Retail Stores Using Customer Traffic Data

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Nov 2020
Daniel Yung, Victor Bucarey, Marcelo Olivares and Matias Christiansen
University of Chile - Engineering Department, Free University of Brussels (VUB)-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Institute for European Studies, Students, University of Chile and Deloitte Digital
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Retail Operations, Empirical Research, Forecasting, Staff Scheduling, Robust Optimization

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A Review of Choice Modeling in the Marketing-Operations Management Interface

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-60, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-85
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares, Sharad Borle, Hai Che, Christopher T. Conlon, Karan Girotra, Sachin Gupta, Kanishka Misra, Julie H. Mortimer, Gustavo Vulcano and Fanyin Zheng
Universidad de Chile, University of Chile, Rice University, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Columbia University, Cornell Tech, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Boston College, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Choice Models, Marketing-Operations Interface, Econometrics, Empirical Research

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Identifying Competitors in Markets with Fixed Product Offerings

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 14-10
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Jan 2014
Roger Lederman, Marcelo Olivares and Garrett van Ryzin
Amazon.com, University of Chile and Amazon
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choice modeling, customer segmentation, competitive positioning, hotel industry, choice-based revenue management

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Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of General Motors' Dealerships in Isolated U.S. Markets

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Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of General Motors' Dealerships in Isolated U.S. Markets

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2012
Marcelo Olivares and Gerard P Cachon
University of Chile and The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department
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Inventory competition, empirical, entry, supply chain management, automobile industry

Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of General Motors' Dealerships in Isolated U.S. Markets

Management Science, Vol. 55, No. 9, pp. 1586-1604, 2009 , Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Oct 2011
Marcelo Olivares and Gerard P Cachon
University of Chile and The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department
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Retail in High Definition: Monitoring Customer Assistance through Video Analytics

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 15-73
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares and Ariel Schilkrut
Universidad de Chile, University of Chile and SCOPIX
Downloads 305 (172,192)
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empirical OM, Service Operations, Marketing/OM interface, Retail Planning, OM Practice, hazard models, staffing decisions

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ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and Its Implication on Patient Outcomes

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12/34
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2018
Song-Hee Kim, Carri Chan, Marcelo Olivares and Gabriel J. Escobar
Seoul National University - Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, University of Chile and Kaiser Permanente
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service operations, healthcare operations management, empirical research, dynamic programming, capacity allocation, admission control, occupancy level, quality of service

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Structural Estimation of the Newsvendor Model: An Application to Reserving Operating Room Time

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 Apr 2007
Marcelo Olivares and Christian Terwiesch
University of Chile and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Newsvendor model, empirical research, health care

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Balancing Agent Retention and Waiting Time in Service Platforms

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2022
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares and Daniel Yung
Universidad de Chile, University of Chile and University of Chile - Engineering Department
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queueing, econometrics, service industry, behavioral operations, call centers, online platforms

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Ordering Sequential Competitions to Reduce Order Relevance: Soccer Penalty Shootouts

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 22 Apr 2019
Nils Rudi, Marcelo Olivares and Aditya Shetty
Yale School of Management, University of Chile and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
Downloads 200 (260,269)
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Decision Analysis: Sequential, Decision Analysis: Applications, Industries: Recreation-sports, Networks-Graphs, Statistics

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Productivity Analysis in Services Using Timing Studies

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Yina Lu, Aliza Heching and Marcelo Olivares
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, IBM Research and University of Chile
Downloads 187 (276,431)
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Service Operations, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Research, Behavioral Operations, OM Practice

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Combinatorial Auctions for Procurement: An Empirical Study of the Chilean School Meals Auction

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Combinatorial Auctions for Procurement: An Empirical Study of the Chilean School Meals Auction

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2011
Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Rafael Epstein and Daniel Yung
University of Chile, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, University of Chile - Engineering Department and University of Chile - Engineering Department
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combinatorial auctions, procurement, auction design, supply chain management, empirical, public sector applications

Combinatorial Auctions for Procurement: An Empirical Study of the Chilean School Meals Auction

Management Science, Forthcoming, Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Nov 2011
Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Rafael Epstein and Daniel Yung
University of Chile, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, University of Chile - Engineering Department and University of Chile - Engineering Department
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combinatorial auctions, procurement, auction design, supply chain management, empirical, public sector applications

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Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach

Management Science 60(5):1180-1201
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 May 2012 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2016
Sang Won Kim, Marcelo Olivares and Gabriel Y. Weintraub
College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), University of Chile and Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
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Combinatorial auctions, Procurement, Structural estimation, Econometrics, Public sector applications

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Service Design To Balance Waiting Time and Infection Risk: An Application for Elections During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 14 May 2021
Susana Mondschein, Marcelo Olivares, Fernando Ordonez, Daniel Schwartz, Andres Weintraub, Cristian Aguayo, Gianpiero Canessa and Ignacio Torres
University of Chile - Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, University of Southern California - Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Chile, University of Chile - Industrial Engineering, Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingenieria (ISCI), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Industrial Engineering and Management and University of Chile - Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
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service design, queueing, discrete event simulation, randomized experiment, process analysis, COVID-19, voting behavior

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Drivers of Finished-Goods Inventory in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 202-216, January 2010, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 11-25
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Oct 2011
Marcelo Olivares and Gerard P Cachon
University of Chile and The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department
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Saving Millions in Government Procurement Through Data Science and Market Design

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 4327950
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2023
Marcelo Olivares, Daniela Saban, Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Eduardo Lara, Piero Zanocco and Paula Moreno
University of Chile, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, University of Chile, University of Chile and ChileCompra
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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 7, pp. 1180-1197, July 2010 , Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 11-24
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Oct 2011
Marcelo Olivares, Eric Bradlow, Christian Terwiesch and Daniel Corsten
University of Chile, University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and IE Business School - IE University
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