Yalcin
Akcay
Assistant Professor of Operations
Management

College of
Administrative Sciences and Economics,
Koc
University,
Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer
Istanbul,
Turkey 34450

Office:
CASE 270

Phone:
90 212 338 1560
Fax: 90 212
338 1393

Yalcin Akcay
is an assistant professor of operations management at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He
received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University and
his master's degree in Business Administration at Middle East Technical
University. Yalcin Akcay earned his dual Ph.D. degree in Business
Administration and Operations Research at the Pennsylvania State
University.

His current
research interests are in stochastic modeling of operations systems,
revenue management, pricing, supply chain management, and interface of
marketing and operations. Yalcin Akcay teaches quantitative methods in
business and management science courses at the undergraduate, MBA and
executive MBA levels at Koc University.

Publications

Akcay, Y., Boyaci T. and Zhang
D., 2011. Selling with Money-Back Guarantees: The Impact on Prices,
Quantities, and Retail Profitability, forthcoming in Production
and Operations Management

Akcay Y., Natarajan H. and Xu
S. H., 2010. Joint Dynamic Pricing of Multiple Perishable Products,
Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 8, 1345-1361.

Akcay, Y., Balakrishnan A. and
Xu S. H., 2010. Dynamic Assignment of Flexible Service Resources,
Production and Operations Management, Vol. 19, No. 3,
279-304.      (winner of the Wickham
Skinner Award for the best published paper in Vol. 19 (2010) of
Production and Operations Management)

Akcay, Y. and Yalcin A., 2010.
Optimal Portfolio Selection with a Shortfall Probability Constraint:
Evidence from Alternative Distribution Functions, The Journal of
Financial Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, 77-102.

Aydin, S, Akcay Y. and
Karaesmen F., 2009. On the Structural Properties of a Discrete-Time
Single Product Revenue Management Problem, Operations Research
Letters, Vol. 37, No. 4, 273-279.

Akcay Y. and Tan B., 2008. On
the Benefits of Assortment-Based Cooperation among Independent
Producers, Production and Operations Management, Vol. 17, No.
6, 626-640.

Akcay Y., Li H. and Xu S. H.,
2007. An Approximate Algorithm for the General Multidimensional
Knapsack Problem, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 150,
No.1, 17-29.

Akcay, Y; Xu, S.H., 2004. Joint
inventory replenishment and component allocation optimization in an
assemble-to-order system, Management Science, Vol. 50, No. 1
, 99-116.

Book Chapters

Akcay Y. and Xu S. H.  2005. “A Near-Optimal
Order-Based Inventory Allocation Rule in an Assemble-To-Order System
and its Applications to Resource Allocation Problems” in
Applications of Supply Chain Management  and
E-Commerce  Research, E. Akcali, J. Geunes, P.M. Pardalos,
H.E. Romeijn, and Z.J. Shen (editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Akcay, Y., Balakrishnan A. and Xu S.H.  2004.
"Scheduling Flexible Resources in Professional Service Firms",
in  Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and
Performance Analysis, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer &
Information Science Series (Leung J. editor) Volume: 1.