Browsing Management Sciences by Supervisor "Dimitrov, Stanko"
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A Comparative Study of Univariate Time-series Methods for Sales Forecasting
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Sales time-series forecasters, data scientists and managers often use timeseries forecasting methods to predict sales. Nonetheless, it is still a question which time-series method a forecaster is best off using, if they ... -
Costly Actions, External Incentives and Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-25)Consider a prediction market of multiple rounds with a security contingent on a certain event whose final outcome is decided by the agents who also trade in the market. One such prediction market is one in which two agents, ... -
Environmental taxation: The impact of carbon tax policy commitment on technology choice and social welfare
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Motivated by multiple real-world settings, we determine a social welfare-maximizing regulator’s tax policies that induce a profit-maximizing polluting firm to make green technology choices. Using a game-theoretic approach ... -
Essays in Corporate Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-22)Personal subjective opinions are one of the most important assets in management. Prediction markets are mechanisms that can be deployed to elicit and aggregate a group of people’s opinions regarding the outcome of future ... -
Essays on building and evaluating two-stage DEA models of efficiency and effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-27)Researchers are not consistent in their choice of input and output variables when using two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to measure efficiency and effectiveness. This inconsistency has resulted in the ... -
Models of Deterministic and Stochastic Comparison: Two Studies in Applied Operations Research
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-29)This dissertation includes two essays on applications of management science methods to modelling service systems and developing novel improvements to sports team ranking systems. The first essay proposes a novel approach ... -
Statistical Method of Goodness on Quantitative Models of Efficiency and Effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Motivated by different qualitative constructs of efficiency and effectiveness [Cameron, 1978] and the variety of distinct quantitative models of measuring efficiency and effectiveness derived from them, we propose a ... -
Three Essays on Business Analytics: time-series causality, panel data analysis, and design of experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This dissertation includes three empirical studies focusing on the applications of Business Analytics in the context of financial markets and the online advertisement industry. The first essay examines the existence of a ...