Arian Aflaki

Interests 

Revenue management and pricing, retail analytics, nonprofit operations, supply chain management, and operations-marketing interface

Research Papers

Journal Publications
  1. Is Your Price Personalized? Alleviating Customer Concerns with Inventory Availability Information,  with Q. Zhang. Operations Research, 74(1):181-198, January 2026
  2. Allocation of Nonprofit Funds among Program, Fundraising, and Administration,  with T. Kotsi, G. Aydin, A.J. Pedraza-Martinez.  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 25, No. 5, September-October 2023
  3. Competition and Collaboration on Fundraising for Short-Term Disaster Response: The Impact on Earmarking and Performance,  with A.J. Pedraza-Martinez. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 25, No. 4, July-August 2023
    • Finalist, INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Award, 2022
    • Finalist, POMS HOCM Best Paper Award, 2022
  4. Inventory Integration with Rational Consumers,  with R. Swinney. Operations Research, Vol. 69, No. 4, July-August 2021
  5. Becoming Strategic: Endogenous Consumer Time Preferences and Multiperiod Pricing,  with P. Feldman and R. Swinney. Operations Research, Vol. 68, No. 4, July-August 2020
  6. Humanitarian Funding in a Multi-Donor Market with Donation Uncertainty,  with A.J. Pedraza-Martinez. Production and Operations Management, Vol. 25, No. 7, July 2016
  7. On the Harmonious Colouring of Trees II,  with S. Akbari, D.S. Eskandani, M. Jamaali, and H. Ravanbod.  Ars Combinatoria, Vol. 128, July 2016
  8. On Harmonious Colouring of Trees I,  with S. Akbari, K.J. Edwards, D.S. Eskandani, M. Jamaali, and H. Ravanbod.  The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 19(1), 2012
Working Papers
  1. Rating Systems under Customer Disconfirmation Bias: Asymptotic Behavior and Granularity , with Q. Zhang (under revision)
  2. Are All Cause Contributions Created Equal? Operational and Competitive Implications of Transactional and Non-Transactional Cause Marketing ,  with E. Gal-Or, M. Gordon, J. Shang, and E. Xing (under review)
  3. An Attribute-Based Multi-Item Demand Model with Constrained Machine Learning: Theory and Estimation, with D. Eskandani and S. Wu
  4. Pricing the Roses in Online Matching Platforms, with M. Hamilton, K. Tari, and E. Xing
  5. Signaling Quality with Delayed Incentives, with B. Kadiyala and D. Shin
  6. Optimal Fashionability for Seasonal Products, with R. Swinney

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