Prof. Dr. Benny Mantin
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Faculty or Centre | Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance | ||||
Department | Department of Economics and Management | ||||
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Campus Kirchberg, Université du Luxembourg 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg |
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Campus Office | B16A | ||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5815 | ||||
Benny Mantin is a Professor and the Director of the Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL). Professor Mantin joined the LCL in January 2017 but was involved in setting up the centre since September 2016.
His research covers different aspects of dynamic pricing and revenue management, supply chain management, and transportation economics. Using game theory frameworks, Prof. Mantin seeks to explore and understand the strategic interactions between suppliers, vendors, and consumers in different market settings. He also conducts extensive empirical work using retail and airfare data. In his research, Benny addresses topical and compelling questions and his research has been published or accepted for publication in numerous journals such as Marketing Science, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Research Parts B and E, and European Journal of Operational Research.
Prof. Mantin is a board member of the Journal of Air Transport Management and he is on the advisory board of the Hamburg Aviation Conference.
His research has been recognized and supported by several grants.
Prof. Mantin has been engaged in consulting on air-transport policies and has been involved in numerous projects where he led students to improve processes at different firms.
Prior to joining the LCL, Prof. Mantin was an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, and M.Sc. as well as B.Sc. from Tel-Aviv University.
Links to his website and to his scholar page
Last updated on: Tuesday, 09 February 2021
Undergraduate level
- Logistics/Production/Operations Management (at the University of British Columbia: F2006; at the University of Waterloo: F2016, W2015, F2014, W2012, F2011, W2011, W2010, F2009, W2009, S2008; at the University of Cologne: S2014, S2015)
- Statistics (at the University of British Columbia: Winter 2006)
- Economics of Air Transportation (at Western University: Winter 2013)
- Management Engineering Concepts (at the University of Waterloo: F2014, F2013, F2012, F2011, F2010)
- Engineering Economics (at the University of Waterloo: S2009)
Graduate Level
- Logistics/Production/Inventory/Procurement Management (at the University of Waterloo: W2009, W2015, W2014, W2013, W2010; at the Aviation Institute of Istanbul Technical University/Turkish Airlines: June 2014, December 2014, December 2015; at the University of Cologne: S2013, S2016; at the Kühne Logistics University: F2015)
- Advanced Information Systems and Business Analytics (at the Aviation Institute of Istanbul Technical University/Turkish Airlines: June 2015, May 2016)
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2017
Professor Mantin’s research program encapsulates topical, important and challenging aspects of dynamic pricing and revenue management (DP/RM), supply chain management, and transportation economics.
The core of his research focuses on integrating and understanding consumer behaviour in the context of dynamically priced goods through analytical models, behavioural experiments as well as empirical analyses; strategic interactions between agents in supply chains with an emphasis on decisions in competitive environments; and deriving insights for policy decision makers in regulating and privatizing the aviation industry.
Topics
- Revenue Management & Pricing with an emphasis on consumer behaviour
- (Strategic) Consumer Behaviour
- Empirical Operations Management
- Analytics
- Airline Industry
Retailing Sample of research questions addressed by Prof. Mantin’s research
- Why does Amazon operate as a dual-format retailer (i.e., both as a merchant and as a platform)?
- How should firms make market entry and/or market portfolio decisions in the presence of competition?
- How should firms dynamically price their goods in the presence of competition and strategic consumers?
- How do fare histories differ from each other?
- What are the drivers and implications of price volatility particularly in the presence of strategic consumers?
- What are the policy implications of airlines’ varying code sharing agreements?
- Do presentation formats matter to transacted prices?
- What is the impact of airport complementarity on privatization decisions?
- How do frequency and concessions influence the interaction between airlines and airports?
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2017
Publications (Sample)
2016
Jiang, L. and B. Mantin. Strategic Inventories with Quality Deterioration. European Journal of Operational Research (accepted August 2016).
Jiang, L., S. Dimitrov, and B. Mantin. P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. Production and Operations Management, forthcoming (accepted February 2016).
Kremer, M., B. Mantin, and A. Ovchinnikov. 2016. Dynamic pricing in the presence of strategic consumers. Production and Operations Management (forthcoming).
Mantin, B. and E. Rubin. 2015. Fare Prediction Websites and Transaction Prices: Empirical Evidence from the Airline Industry. Marketing Science, 35 (4): 640 – 655.
2014
Zschocke, M., B. Mantin, and E. Jewkes. 2014. The Effect of Competition on R&D Portfolio Investments. Production and Operations Management, 23 (8): 1439-1449.
Gillen, D. and B. Mantin. 2014. Pricing strategies for congested multi-sided airport markets. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 68: 164-167.
2013
Mantin, H. Krishnan, and T. Dhar. 2013. Bargaining in Dual-Format Retailing. Production and Operations Management, 23(11): 1937-1949.
Zschocke, M., B. Mantin, and E. Jewkes. 2013. Mature or emerging markets: Competitive duopoly investment decisions. European Journal of Operational Research, 228(3): 612-622.
2012
B. Mantin. 2012. Airport Complementarity: Private vs. Government Ownership and Welfare Gravitation, Transportation Research Part B, 46: 381-388.
2011
Mantin, B., D. Granot and F. Granot. 2011. Dynamic Pricing under First Order Markovian Competition, Naval Research Logistics, 58: 608-618.
Mantin, B. and D. Gillen. 2011. The Hidden Information Content of Price Movements, European Journal of Operational Research, 211(2): 385-393.
2009
Mantin, B. and B. Koo. 2009. Dynamic Price Dispersion in Airline Markets, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 45: 1020-1029. Gillen, D. and B. Mantin. 2009. Price Volatility in the Airline Markets, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 45: 693-709.
Please see Prof. Mantin CV for the full list of publications
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2017
- Measuring Competition Intensity and Product Differentiation: Evidence from the Airline Industry. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; GRIPS seminar, Tokyo, July 2016 ; Kyoto University seminar, Kyoto, July 2016 ; ENAC seminar, Toulouse, June 2016 ; TBS seminar, Toulouse, June 2016 ; GARS workshop on “Current issues of aviation economics and policy”, Worms, February 2016.
- P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers’ Valuation Uncertainty. TSE, Toulouse, May 2016 ; EBS, Wiesbaden, March 2016 ; ESMT, Berlin, January 2016 ; KLU, Hamburg, November 2015 ; University of Groningen, October 2015
- Cutting edge revenue management as a critical success factor – panelist at Hamburg Aviation Conference, February 2016.
- Introduction to Revenue Management – guest speaker at HSB’s Air Transport Business Administration, Bremen, January 2016
- Benchmarking in Air Transport – discussant at GARS workshop on Benchmarking in Public Utilities, HSB, Bremen, October 2015.
- Overhauling MSCI 100 Using a longitudinal backbone case, Engineering Integrative Learning, University of Waterloo, March 2015.
Last updated on: 10 Jan 2017

In press

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in Journal of Air Transport Management (in press)
2021

E-print/Working paper (2021)
2020

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in Transportation Research. Part A, General (2020), 132

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in Production and Operations Management (2020), 29(10), 2350-2380
2019

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in Journal of Air Transport Management (2019), 74

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in European Journal of Operational Research (2019), 279(3), 782-794

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in Production and Operations Management (2019), 28(2), 374-392
2018

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in Transportation Research. Part E, Logistics and Transportation Review (2018), 120(December), 35-50
2017

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in Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management (2017)

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in Production and Operations Management (2017), 26(3), 509--524

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in Production and Operations Management (2017), 26(1), 116--133

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in European Journal of Operational Research (2017), 258(1), 155-164
2016

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in Marketing Science (2016), 35(4), 640--655
2015

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in Economics of Transportation (2015), 4(3), 166--177

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in Economics of Transportation (2015), 4(4), 189--199
2014

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in Production and Operations Management (2014), 23(11), 1937--1949

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in Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management (2014), 13(6), 457--469

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in Production and Operations Management (2014), 23(8), 1439--1449