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48
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30713
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1072
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Gérard P. Cachon is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research activity centers on several areas within the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Engineering. The subfields they focus on include Marketing, Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their recent published papers cover a range of topics and venues. Key publications include:

  • Serving Democracy: Evidence of Voting Resource Disparity in Florida (2022, Management Science)
  • Decentralized or Centralized Control of Online Service Platforms: Who Should Set Prices? (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Pricing Control and Regulation on Online Service Platforms (2025, Management Science)
  • Democracy on the Line: Polling Place Closures in Georgia and the Wait Time to Vote (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • The Fast and Affordable Delivery Problem (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

These works reflect a strong interest in digital platforms and economics, consumer market behavior and pricing, electoral systems and political participation, as well as transportation and mobility innovations. The main topics explored in their research are:

  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Russia and Soviet political economy

Frequent publication venues for their research include the SSRN Electronic Journal, with six papers, and Management Science, where two papers have appeared. These channels suggest the scientist's work engages with both theoretical and applied aspects of management science and economics.

Collaborations have involved a set of frequent co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. These include Dawson Kaaua, Tolga Dizdarer, Gerry Tsoukalas, Borja Apaolaza, and Santiago Gallino, each having coauthored multiple works.

In recognition of contributions to their field, Gérard P. Cachon was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Supply Chain Coordination with Contracts

    Gérard P. Cachon

  • Supply Chain Coordination with Revenue-Sharing Contracts: Strengths and Limitations

    Gérard P. Cachon;Martin A. Lariviere

  • Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information

    Gérard P. Cachon;Marshall Fisher

  • Complexity Theory and Organization Science

    Gérard P. Cachon;Paul H. Zipkin;Philip Anderson

  • Contracting to Assure Supply: How to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain

    Gérard P. Cachon;Martin A. Lariviere

  • Decision Bias in the Newsvendor Problem with a Known Demand Distribution: Experimental Evidence

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Gérard P. Cachon

  • The Value of Fast Fashion: Quick Response, Enhanced Design, and Strategic Consumer Behavior

    Gérard P. Cachon;Robert Swinney

  • Game Theory in Supply Chain Analysis

    Gérard P. Cachon;Serguei Netessine

  • The Allocation of Inventory Risk in a Supply Chain: Push, Pull, and Advance-Purchase Discount Contracts

    Gérard P. Cachon

  • Competitive and Cooperative Inventory Policies in a Two-Stage Supply Chain

    Gérard P. Cachon;Paul H. Zipkin

  • Purchasing, Pricing, and Quick Response in the Presence of Strategic Consumers

    Gérard P. Cachon;Robert Swinney

  • Matching Supply with Demand

    Gerard Cachon;Christian Terwiesch

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

    Gérard P. Cachon;Kaitlin M. Daniels;Ruben Lobel

  • Capacity Choice and Allocation: Strategic Behavior and Supply Chain Performance

    Gérard P. Cachon;Martin A. Lariviere

  • Competition and Outsourcing with Scale Economies

    Gérard P. Cachon;Patrick T. Harker

  • In Search of the Bullwhip Effect

    Gérard P. Cachon;Taylor Randall;Glen M. Schmidt

  • Stock Wars: Inventory Competition in a Two-Echelon Supply Chain with Multiple Retailers

    Gérard P. Cachon

  • Managing Supply Chain Demand Variability with Scheduled Ordering Policies

    Reza Ahmadi;Robert H. Wang;Gérard P. Cachon

  • Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management

    Gérard Cachon;Christian Terwiesch

  • Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination

    Gérard P. Cachon;A. Gürhan Kök

  • Decision Bias in the Newsvendor Problem with a Known Demand Distribution: Experimental Evidence.: Experimental Evidence.

    Maurice E. Schweitzer;Gerard P. Cachon

Frequent Co-Authors

Serguei Netessine
Serguei Netessine University of Pennsylvania
Christian Terwiesch
Christian Terwiesch University of Pennsylvania
Maurice E. Schweitzer
Maurice E. Schweitzer University of Pennsylvania
Paul Zipkin
Paul Zipkin Duke University
Marshall L. Fisher
Marshall L. Fisher University of Pennsylvania
Patrick T. Harker
Patrick T. Harker Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Colin F. Camerer
Colin F. Camerer California Institute of Technology

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