Although it is theoretically established that variable pricing benefits event organizers by enabling them to respond to changing demand, reports point to somewhat limited implementation. In this paper, we study the implications of a switch to variable pricing on the primary and resale ticket...

Majority of recent empirical papers in the Operations Management (OM) use observational data to investigate the effects of a adopting a program or policy. However, observational data does not offer random assignment of these program or policies; therefore, estimating the causal effects is...

This paper studies the effects of changing from Pre-exam to Post-exam rank order lists submission on matching outcomes in Turkish college admissions. A conceptual framework illustrates that such reform in the constrained Deferred Acceptance mechanism improves matching stability in two ways: (i)...

This study investigates whether corruption differentially affects contracting through auctions and negotiations. Using data on Chinese land-market transactions, where corruption is known to be present, we first show that, on average, it exerts similar effects on transactions carried out via...

This paper proposes a practical and data-driven preference estimation method from reported lists in a Deferred Acceptance mechanism when there are incentives to report these lists strategically. Data on centralized college admissions from Turkey show many pieces of evidence that students...