research overview
- Dr. Yilmaz's area of interest is Revenue Management and Pricing (RM&P), particularly innovative RM&P applications in the airline, hotel, and event industries.
- Contact Info
Yilmaz, Ovunc
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Leeds-Budget & Administration
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Revenue management in airline/hotel/event industries
Publications
selected publications
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journal article
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Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls.
Journal of Operations Management.
831-859.
2024
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Scoring a Touchdown with Variable Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the NFL Ticket Markets.
Management Science.
4435-4456.
2023
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The future of sports ticketing: Technologies, data, and new strategies.
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management.
219-230.
2023
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Strategic behavior for hotel standby upgrade programs: Empirical evidence and pricing implications.
Journal of Operations Management.
675-701.
2022
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Data-Driven Sports Ticket Pricing for Multiple Sales Channels with Heterogeneous Customers.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
1241-1260.
2022
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Airline revenue management around sporting mega-events: an application using data from the Super Bowl XLIX.
Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management.
188-200.
2021
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Would You Like to Upgrade to a Premium Room? Evaluating the Benefit of Offering Standby Upgrades.
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
1-18.
2017
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Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls.
Journal of Operations Management.
831-859.
2024
Teaching
courses taught
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BCOR 2206 - Principles of Operations Management
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Introduces the student to the common activities performed by an operations manager and sets the stage for the student to operate as a member of a cross-functional team responsible for adding value for the customer. These common activities include planning and designing goods and services, sourcing materials and supplies, producing the goods and delivering the services, and dealing with product end-of-life requirements. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2500, BASE 2101. -
MSBX 5415 - Advanced Data Analytics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
Explores the capabilities and challenges of data-driven business decision making and prepares students to lead in analytics-driven organizations. Introduces a set of common predictive and prescriptive analytics tools. Students apply the analytics tools to important decisions based on practical data sets from various companies. Analytics software packages are used extensively in the course. -
OPIM 7330 - Advanced Operations Management Modeling
Primary Instructor - Fall 2023
Covers concepts, models and solution techniques relevant to the management of the processes required to provide goods or services to consumers. Emphasizes supply chain systems topics such as production, inventory, distribution and scheduling. Management science and operations research methodology is also applied to problems such as facility capacity planning, facility design and location analysis.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina - Columbia 2017
- M.S., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 2012