Gerard P Cachon

The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department

Professor

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (20)

1.

The Role of Surge Pricing on a Service Platform with Self-Scheduling Capacity

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2016
Gerard P Cachon, Kaitlin Daniels and Ruben Lobel
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 2,431 (12,362)
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self-scheduling capacity, peer-to-peer markets, contract design, dynamic pricing, service operations, ride-sharing

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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 1,278 (33,428)
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Supply chain management, applied econometrics, instrumental variables, inventory management, automobile industry

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Free Shipping Is Not Free: A Data-Driven Model to Design Free-Shipping Threshold Policies.

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Gerard P Cachon, Santiago Gallino and Joseph Xu
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Downloads 1,192 (37,121)
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shipping fees, free shipping threshold, fulfillment policies, online retailing, empirical OM

4.

Pricing Control and Regulation on Online Service Platforms

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2023
Gerard P Cachon, Tolga Dizdarer and Gerry Tsoukalas
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 1,104 (41,380)
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blockchain, decentralized pricing, gig economy, platforms, revenue management, smart contracts

5.

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
Downloads 1,023 (46,148)
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operations management, productivity, econometrics, automobile industry, weather, climate change

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A Research Framework for Business Models: What Is Common Among Fast Fashion, E-Tailing, and Ride Sharing?

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
Gerard P Cachon
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department
Downloads 809 (63,659)
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Interesting, Important and Impactful Operations Management

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
Gerard P Cachon, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 691 (78,216)
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Operations Management, Fragmentation, M&SOM, New Research Areas, Innovation

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Retail Store Density and the Cost of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Gerard P Cachon
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department
Downloads 541 (106,691)
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sustainability, k-median, traveling salesman problem, carbon tax, cap-and-trade

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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
Downloads 523 (111,202)
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Empirical, supply chain management, product variety, inventory theory, manufacturing flexibility

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Price Commitments with Strategic Consumers: Why it Can Be Optimal to Discount More Frequently ... Than Optimal

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Gerard P Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 385 (159,440)
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Is Advance Selling Desirable with Competition?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Gerard P Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 376 (163,761)
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competition, game theory, advance selling

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
Downloads 320 (193,539)

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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
Downloads 47 (831,649)
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Why Facilitate Ticket Exchanges and Other Reselling Markets: Pricing Capacity and Recourse Strategies

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2021
Gerard P Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 309 (202,564)
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Dynamic Pricing, Recourse Strategies, Reselling, Advance Selling

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Course Match: A Large-Scale Implementation of Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes for Combinatorial Allocation

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 15-28
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2015
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 229 (274,475)
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Democracy on the Line: Polling Place Closures in Georgia and the Wait Time to Vote

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
Gerard P Cachon and Dawson Kaaua
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
Downloads 175 (352,078)

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voting, queue, lines, waiting, capacity pooling, resource allocation

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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
Downloads 153 (395,148)
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Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty: Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Sep 2016
Yonsei University, The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Downloads 141 (421,911)
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The Enigma of Ticket Exchanges (and Other Reselling Markets)

The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Apr 2024
Gerard P Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 137 (431,642)

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Reselling, Advance Selling, Mechanism Design

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Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 244-260, 2011
Posted: 06 Sep 2018
Gerard P Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

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The Timing of Capacity Investment by Start-Ups and Established Firms in New Markets

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/60/TOM
Posted: 26 Aug 2010
Robert Swinney, Gerard P Cachon and Serguei Netessine
Stanford University, The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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