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40
Citations
8599
World Ranking
5276
National Ranking
2495

Overview

Elena Katok is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans various topics within business, management, and decision sciences, with an emphasis on operations management, supply chain analytics, and behavioral economics.

The primary fields of study for their work include Business, Management and Accounting, and Decision Sciences. More specifically, their contributions are notable in subfields such as Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, and Strategy and Management. The research also touches on areas like Safety Research and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

The scholar's main research topics cover a wide range of subjects, including Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Auction Theory and Applications, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, and the Philosophy and History of Science.

Frequent publication venues for Elena Katok include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • Management Science
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society

Recent papers highlight collaborative research efforts and topics of interest:

  • Optimal Contract Under Asymmetric Information About Fairness (2021), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • A Replication Study of Operations Management Experiments in Management Science (2023), Management Science
  • Reproducibility in Management Science (2023), Management Science
  • Bargaining Process and Channel Efficiency (2020), Management Science
  • Centralized or Decentralized Transfer Prices: A Behavioral Approach for Improving Supply Chain Coordination (2021), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably Wen Zhang, Andrew M. Davis, Shawn Mankad, Charles J. Corbett, and Valery Pavlov.

Best Publications

  • How Effective Are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Investigation

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels

  • Dictator game giving: rules of fairness versus acts of kindness

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Rami Zwick

  • Learning by Doing in the Newsvendor Problem: A Laboratory Investigation of the Role of Experience and Feedback

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • Cooperation among strangers with limited information about reputation

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels

  • An experimental test for gender differences in beneficent behavior

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • Contracting in Supply Chains: A Laboratory Investigation

    Elena Katok;Diana Yan Wu

  • Fairness in supply chain contracts: A laboratory study

    Elena Katok;Valery Pavlov

  • Order stability in supply chains: : coordination risk and the role of coordination stock

    Rachel Croson;Karen L Donohue;Elena Katok;John Sterman

  • Learning, communication, and the bullwhip effect

    Diana Yan Wu;Elena Katok

  • Designing Buyback Contracts for Irrational But Predictable Newsvendors

    Michael Becker-Peth;Elena Katok;Ulrich W. Thonemann

  • Regret and Feedback Information in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions

    Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans;Elena Katok

  • Learning and the Economics of Small Decisions

    Ido Erev;Ernan Haruvy;John H. Kagel;Alvin E. Roth

  • Wholesale pricing under mild and privately known concerns for fairness

    Elena Katok;Tava Olsen;Valery Pavlov

  • An experimental test of the crowding out hypothesis: The nature of beneficent behavior

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok

  • A Comparison of Buyer-Determined and Price-Based Multiattribute Mechanisms

    Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans;Ernan Haruvy;Elena Katok

  • Regret in auctions: theory and evidence

    Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans;Elena Katok

  • Time is money: The effect of clock speed on seller's revenue in Dutch auctions

    Elena Katok;Anthony M. Kwasnica

  • Push, Pull, or Both? A Behavioral Study of How the Allocation of Inventory Risk Affects Channel Efficiency

    Andrew M. Davis;Elena Katok;Natalia Santamaría

  • The handbook of behavioral operations

    Karen Donohue;Elena Katok;Stephen Leider

  • Inventory Service-Level Agreements as Coordination Mechanisms: The Effect of Review Periods

    Elena Katok;Douglas Thomas;Andrew M. Davis

  • Fairness and Coordination Failures in Supply ChainContracts

    Valery Pavlov;Elena Katok

  • How Effective are Online Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Study

    Gary E. Bolton;Elena Katok;Axel Ockenfels;Axel Ockenfels

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary E. Bolton
Gary E. Bolton The University of Texas at Dallas
Ernan Haruvy
Ernan Haruvy McGill University
Daniel J. Friedman
Daniel J. Friedman National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ido Erev
Ido Erev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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