Binyamin Mantin

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Binyamin Mantin

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Binyamin Mantin

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Binyamin (Benny) Mantin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

His research interests lie in the areas of Revenue Management and Pricing, Strategic Consumer Behaviour, Empirical Operations Management, Analytics, Retailing, and the Airline Industry. Professor Mantin has published several articles on topics such as price volatility and strategic consumer behavior in airline markets, Amazon’s dual-format retailing and other supply chain issues, airport privatization, and competitive portfolio investments.

Research interests

  • Operations management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Dynamic pricing & Revenue management
  • Transportation economics
  • Airline industry
  • Application of Game theory
  • Marketing models
  • Strategic consumers

Education

  • 2008, Doctorate, Management Science, University of British Columbia
  • 2001, Master's, Management Sciences - Operations Research, Tel Aviv University
  • 1997, Bachelor's, Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Selected/recent publications

  • Mantin, Benny and Rubin, Eran, Fare Prediction Websites and Transaction Prices: Empirical Evidence from the Airline Industry, Marketing Science, 2016
  • Adler, Nicole and Mantin, Benny, Government and company contracts: The effect on service and prices in international airline markets, Economics of Transportation, 4(3), 2015, 166 - 177
  • Kremer, Mirko and Mantin, Benny and Ovchinnikov, Anton, Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Strategic Consumers: Theory and Experiment, , 2015
  • Lin, M.H. and B. Mantin. 2015. Airport Privatization in International Inter-Hub and Spoke Networks. Economics of Transportation, 4(4): 189-199.
  • Adler, N. and B. Mantin. 2015. Airline Contracts, Government Regulation and the International Airline Market. Economics of Transportation, 4(3): 166-177.
  • Yang, L., S. Dimitrov, and B. Mantin, Forecasting sales of new virtual goods with the Elo rating system, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 13, 2014, 457 - 469
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