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Kostas Bimpikis
Kostas Bimpikis
Associate Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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KostasBimpikis
Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
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Operations, Information & Technology

Research Statement

Professor Bimpikis' research agenda broadly explores the following two themes: (i) Strategic interactions in networks and their implications on firms' operational decision making; (ii) The design and operations of online marketplaces with a particular emphasis on optimizing information disclosure policies.

Bio

Kostas Bimpikis is an associate professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his PhD in Operations Research at MIT working with Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar. Before coming to Stanford, he spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Microsoft Research New England.

Awards and Honors

  • Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar, Stanford GSB, 2013-2016

Publications

Journal Articles

Information Sale and Competition
Kostas Bimpikis, Davide Crapis, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi. Management Science. June 2019, Vol. 65, Issue 6, Pages 2646-2664.
Spatial Pricing in Ridesharing Networks
Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Daniela Saban. Operations Research. May 3, 2019, Vol. 67, Issue 3, Pages 599-904.
Designing Dynamic Contests
Kostas Bimpikis, Shayan Ehsani, Mohamed Mostagir. Operations Research. March 18, 2019, Vol. 67, Issue 2, Pages 295-597.
Learning and Hierarchies in Service Systems
Kostas Bimpikis, Mihalis Markakis. Management Science. March 2019, Vol. 65, Issue 3, Pages 1268-1285.
Cournot Competition in Networked Markets
Kostas Bimpikis, Shayan Ehsani, Rahmi Ilkilic. Management Science. February 1, 2019, Vol. 65, Issue 6, Pages 2445-2945.
Supply Disruptions and Optimal Network Structures
Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Shayan Ehsani. Management Science (forthcoming). August 2018.
Multi-sourcing and Miscoordination in Supply Chain Networks
Kostas Bimpikis, Douglas Fearing, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi. Operations Research (forthcoming). July 2018.
Crowdsourcing Exploration
Yiangos Papanastasiou, Kostas Bimpikis, Nicos Savva. Management Science. April 2018, Vol. 64, Issue 4, Pages 1727-1746.
Randomized Markdowns and Online Monitoring
Ken Moon, Kostas Bimpikis, Haim Mendelson. Management Science . March 2018, Vol. 64, Issue 3, Pages 1271-1290.
Dynamic Learning of Patient Response Types: An Application to Treating Chronic Diseases
Diana Negoescu, Kostas Bimpikis, Margaret Brandeau, Dan A. Iancu. Management Science (forthcoming). 2017.
Inventory Pooling under Heavy-Tailed Demand
Kostas Bimpikis, Mihalis G. Markakis. Management Science. June 2016, Vol. 62, Issue 2, Pages 1800-1813.
Competitive Targeted Advertising over Networks
Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman Ozdaglar, Ercan Yildiz. Operations Research. February 2016, Vol. 64, Issue 3, Pages 705-720.
Dynamics of Information Exchange in Endogenous Social Networks
Daron Acemoglu, Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman Ozdaglar. Theoretical Economics. January 2014, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Pages 41-97.
Optimal Pricing in Networks with Externalities
Ozan Candogan, Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman Ozdaglar. Operations Research. July 2012, Vol. 60, Issue 4, Pages 883-905.
Experimentation, Patents, and Innovation
Daron Acemoglu, Kostas Bimpikis, Asuman Ozdaglar. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. February 2011, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Pages 37-77.
Price and Capacity Competition
Kostas Bimpikis. Games and Economics Behavior. May 2009, Vol. 66, Issue 1, Pages 1-26.

Book Chapters

Inducing Exploration in Service Platforms
Kostas Bimpikis, Yiangos Papanastasiou. Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand (Book Chapter). June 2018.

Working Papers

Disclosing Information in Strategic Experimentation
Kostas Bimpikis, Kimon Drakopoulos, Shayan Ehsani2018
Managing Market Thickness in Online B2B Markets | PDF
Kostas Bimpikis, Wedad J. Elmaghraby, Ken Moon, Wenchang Zhang2018

Teaching

Degree Courses

2018-19

OIT 245: Optimization and Simulation Modeling

This course provides basic skills in quantitative modeling. The objective is to familiarize students with the main steps in an analytical approach to business decision making: constructing an abstract model for a relevant business problem,...

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