Associate Professor of Operations Management
McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Email: yannis.stamos@mccombs.utexas.edu
Office #: GSB 5.157
Education
Ph.D. Operations Management, Northwestern University, 2016
M.A. Economics, Northwestern University, 2015
B.S. Mathematics, University of Athens (Greece), 2011
Research (Technology and Operations, Revenue Management, Public Policy)
Under Review or Revision
- 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 - Local Cost Synergies in Reverse Auctions: An Application to Road Salt Procurement
with Diwakar Gupta, Matt Schmitt
Published and Forthcoming
- 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 (I teach in the Spring Semester)
- OM380 – Empirical Methods (PHD): 2019, 2025
- OM3864 – Operations Practicum (MBA): 2024
- OM386 – Operations Bootcamp (MBA): 2023, 2024, 2025
- OM380 – Pricing and Revenue Management (PHD): 2023
- BA280N – Operations Management (TEMBA): 2021–2024
- OM335/OM235 – Operations Management (BBA): 2017–2020, 2022
Service
- Advising: Fiori Anglou (as advisor; expected to graduate 2025), Hale Erkan (as advisor; graduated 2023; first placed at Arizona State University), Jacob Zeng (as advisor; graduated 2022; first placed at UNC Chapel Hill), Tan Wang (as committee member; graduated 2021; first placed at Expedia Group), Chang Yoo (as committee member; graduated 2018, first placed at McGill University)
- Associate Editor: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2024–)