Associate Professor of Operations
McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: yannis.stamos@mccombs.utexas.edu
Office #: GSB 5.157
I am an Associate Professor of Operations at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, where I teach experiential classes in operations management and study technology and operations, revenue management, and public policy. My work has been published in Science, Operations Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production & Operations Management, and has been featured by The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Education
PhD Operations Management: Northwestern University, 2016
MA Economics: Northwestern University, 2015
BS Mathematics: University of Athens (Greece), 2011
Research (Technology and Operations, Revenue Management, Public Policy)
Under Review or Revision
- Electronic shelf labels have not led to surge pricing in US grocery retail, despite regulator concerns
with Rob Bray and Robbie Sanders - Observational price variation in scanner data cannot reproduce experimental price elasticities
with Rob Bray and Robbie Sanders - Disintermediation evidence from a cleaning platform,
with Nil Karacaoglu and Simin Li - Why So Many Scooters? A Policy Analysis,
with Hale Erkan, Ashish Agarwal, Kumar Muthuraman
Published and Forthcoming
- Local Cost Synergies in Reverse Auctions: An Application to Road Salt Procurement, Operations Research, 2025
with Diwakar Gupta, Matt Schmitt - Of the first five US states with food waste bans, Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste, Science, 2024
with Fiori Anglou and Robbie Sanders - Inventory Information Frictions Explain Price Rigidity in Perishable Groceries, Marketing Science, 2024
with Naveed Chehrazi, Robbie Sanders - Promotional Inventory Displays: An Empirical Analysis Using IoT Data, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2024
with Jacob Zeng, Ashish Agarwal - Menu Costs and the Bullwhip Effect: Supply Chain Implications of Dynamic Pricing, Operations Research, 2022
with Rob Bray - The Effect of Menu Costs on Retail Performance: Evidence from Adoption of the ESL Technology, Management Science, 2021
with Achal Bassamboo, Toni Moreno - Inventory Auditing and Replenishment Using Point-of-sales Data, Production and Operations Management, 2020
with Achal Bassamboo, Toni Moreno - Welfare Implications of Inventory-driven Dynamic Pricing, Management Science, 2019
with Naveed Chehrazi, Achal Bassamboo - Design and Dynamic Pricing of Vertically Differentiated Inventories, Management Science, 2019
with Christos Tzamos - Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management, Management Science, 2017
with Santiago Gallino, Toni Moreno
Teaching
- Currently: OM3864 – Operations Practicum (MBA; Fall), OM386 – Operations Bootcamp (MBA; Spring)
- Past: OM380 – Empirical Methods (PhD), OM380 – Pricing and Revenue Management (PhD), BA280N – Operations Management (TEMBA), OM335/OM235 – Operations Management (BBA)
Service
- PhD advisor (graduated; first placed): Maria Christou (2029), Fiori Anglou (2025; University of Colorado Boulder, Post-doc), Hale Erkan (2023; Arizona State University, Assistant Professor), Jacob Zeng (2022; UNC Chapel Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor)
- PhD committee member (graduated; first placed): Partha Mishra (2025; UT El Paso, Assistant Professor), Tan Wang (2021; Expedia Group, Machine Learning Scientist), Chang Yoo (2018; McGill University, Assistant Professor)
- Associate Editor: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2024–)
- Senior Editor: Production and Operations Management (2025–)