Aleksandar Pekec | Scholars@Duke

Aleksandar Pekec
Professor of Business Administration

Saša Pekeč is an Professor in the Decision Sciences Area at the Fuqua School of Business. Professor Pekeč research is interdisciplinary and revolves around decision-making in complex competitive environments. He is a founding board member of the INFORMS Section on Auctions and Market Design , and has published articles in Management Science, Operations Research, as well as in top academic journals in other fields such as economics, mathematics and psychology. Professor Pekeč is teaching data-driven decision-making courses across Fuqua’s executive and daytime MBA programs.

Professor Pekeč’s consulting experience includes banking, internet, pharmaceutical, retail, and telecommunications industries. He serves on the Supervisory Board of Atlantic Grupa, one of the leading FMCG companies in SE Europe, and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors to the President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.

Current Research Interests

market design
optimization: combinatorial and network optimization, integer programming
design and analysis of algorithms
auction theory
mechanism design

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2019

Contact Information

100 Fuqua Drive, Fuqua School of Business, Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
pekec@duke.edu (919) 660-7786
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Rutgers University New Brunswick 1996
- B.S., University of Zagreb (Croatia) 1991
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2005 - 2019
- Associate Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 2002 - 2005
- Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University 1998 - 2002
Recognition
In the News
- MAY 4, 2023 Duke Today
  
  Duke Awards 44 Distinguished Professorships
- AUG 1, 2022 Fuqua School of Business
  
  Making Music Streaming More Fair for Artists
- MAY 15, 2014
  
  News Tip: Expert Available to Comment on 'Net Neutrality' Proposal
- JUL 1, 2013 Hurriyet Daily News
  
  Croatia: From Conflict Zone to EU Member
- JUN 26, 2013
  
  News Tip: Adviser to Croatian President Available to Discuss EU Membership
Research
Selected Grants
- Random Utility 2000 awarded by National Science Foundation 1999 - 2001
External Relationships
- Atlantic Grupa
- Luxembourg School of Business
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - DeValve, Levi, and Saša Pekeč. “Optimal Price/Advertising Menus for Two-Sided Media Platforms,” April 1, 2021.
  - DeValve, L., S. Pekec, and Y. Wei. “A primal-dual approach to analyzing ATO systems.” Management Science 66, no. 11 (November 1, 2020): 5389–5407. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3486.
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  - Hu, B., Y. Mai, and S. Pekeč. “Managing Innovation Spillover in Outsourcing.” Production and Operations Management 29, no. 10 (October 1, 2020): 2252–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13222.
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  - Belloni, A., C. Deng, and S. Pekeč. “Mechanism and network design with private negative externalities.” Operations Research 65, no. 3 (May 1, 2017): 577–94. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2016.1585.
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  - Deng, Changrong, Aleksandar Pekec, and Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song. “Teaming Up for Sustained Performance: A Repeated-Game Model of Voluntary Horizontal Collaboration,” May 1, 2015.
  - Candogan, Ozan, and Aleksandar Pekec. “Efficient Allocation and Pricing of Multi-Featured Items,” May 28, 2014.
  - Pekeč, S. “Scaling invariance and a characterization of linear objective functions.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6992 LNAI (October 31, 2011): 205–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24873-3_16.
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  - Deng, C., and S. Pekeč. “Money for nothing: Exploiting negative externalities.” Proceedings of the Acm Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 30, 2011, 361–70. https://doi.org/10.1145/1993574.1993634.
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  - Harstad, R. M., and A. S. Pekeč. “Relevance to practice and auction theory: A memorial essay for Michael Rothkopf.” Interfaces 38, no. 5 (September 1, 2008): 367–80. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.1080.0396.
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  - Pekeč, A. S., and I. Tsetlin. “Revenue ranking of discriminatory and uniform auctions with an unknown number of bidders.” Management Science 54, no. 9 (September 1, 2008): 1610–23. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1080.0882.
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  - Harstad, R. M., A. S. Pekeč, and I. Tsetlin. “Information aggregation in auctions with an unknown number of bidders.” Games and Economic Behavior 62, no. 2 (March 1, 2008): 476–508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2006.06.002.
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  - Mezzetti, C., A. S. Pekeč, and I. Tsetlin. “Sequential vs. single-round uniform-price auctions.” Games and Economic Behavior 62, no. 2 (March 1, 2008): 591–609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2007.05.002.
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  - Tsetlin, I., and A. S. Pekeč. “On the existence of an increasing symmetric equilibrium in (k+1)-st price common value auctions.” Review of Economic Design 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2006): 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10058-006-0005-0.
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  - Mustafa, N. H., and A. Pekeč. “Listen to your neighbors: How (not) to reach a consensus.” Siam Journal on Discrete Mathematics 17, no. 4 (April 1, 2004): 634–60. https://doi.org/10.1137/S0895480102408213.
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  - Doignon, J. P., A. Pekeč, and M. Regenwetter. “The repeated insertion model for rankings: Missing link between two subset choice models.” Psychometrika 69, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295838.
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  - Pekeč, A., and M. H. Rothkopf. “Combinatorial auction design.” Management Science 49, no. 11 (January 1, 2003): 1485–1503. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.49.11.1485.20585.
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  - Fishburn, P. C., A. Pekeč, and J. A. Reeds. “Subset comparisons for additive linear orders.” Mathematics of Operations Research 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 227–43. https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.27.1.227.339.
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  - Pekeč, A. “Meaningful and meaningless solutions for cooperative n-person games.” European Journal of Operational Research 133, no. 3 (September 16, 2001): 608–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00208-3.
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  - Pekeč, A., and F. S. Roberts. “The role assignment model nearly fits most social networks.” Mathematical Social Sciences 41, no. 3 (May 1, 2001): 275–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0165-4896(00)00064-0.
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  - BERMOND, J. E. A. N. -. C. L. A. U. D. E., J. O. H. N. Y. BOND, C. A. R. O. L. E. MARTIN, A. L. E. K. S. A. N. D. A. R. PEKEČ, and FRED S. ROBERTS. “OPTIMAL ORIENTATIONS OF ANNULAR NETWORKS.” Journal of Interconnection Networks 01, no. 01 (March 2000): 21–46. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219265900000032.
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  - Mahadev, N. V. R., Aleksandar Pekeč, and Fred S. Roberts. “On the Meaningfulness of Optimal Solutions to Scheduling Problems: Can an Optimal Solution be Nonoptimal?” 46, no. 3-supplement-3 (June 1998).
  - Mahadev, N. V. R., A. Pekeč, and F. S. Roberts. “On the meaningfulness of optimal solutions to scheduling problems: Can an optimal solution be nonoptimal?” Operations Research 46, no. 3 SUPPL. 1 (January 1, 1998). https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.46.3.s120.
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  - Rothkopf, M. H., A. Pekeč, and R. M. Harstad. “Computationally manageable combinational auctions.” Management Science 44, no. 8 (January 1, 1998): 1131–47. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.44.8.1131.
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  - Mahadev, N. V. R., A. Pekeč, and F. S. Roberts. “Effects of change of scale on optimality in a scheduling model with priorities and earliness/tardiness penalties.” Mathematical and Computer Modelling 25, no. 11 (June 1, 1997): 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0895-7177(97)00080-0.
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  - Pekeč, Aleksandar. “Optimization under ordinal scales: When is a greedy solution optimal?” Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 46, no. 2 (June 1997): 229–39.
  - Pekeč, A. “Optimization under ordinal scales: When is a greedy solution optimal?” Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 46, no. 2 (January 1, 1997): 229–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01217692.
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  - Pekeč, A. “A winning strategy for the Ramsey graph game.” Combinatorics Probability and Computing 5, no. 3 (January 1, 1996): 267–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963548300002030.
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- Book Sections
  - Pekec, A., and M. H. Rothkopf. “Noncomputational Approaches to Mitigating Computational Problems in Combinatorial Auctions.” In Combinatorial Auctions, edited by Y. Shohan, P. Cramton, and R. Steinberg. MIT Press, 2006.
- Scholarly Editions
  - Mezzetti, Claudio, Aleksandar Pekec, and Ilia Tsetlin. “Sequential vs. Single-Round Uniform-Price Auctions,” n.d.
- Conference Papers
  - Mustafa, N. H., and A. Pekeč. “Majority consensus and the local majority rule.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2076 LNCS:530–42, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48224-5_44.
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