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Georges Zaccour
Professor, Department of Decision Sciences

Contact information
HEC Montréal3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montréal (Québec)
Canada H3T 2A7
Email : [email protected]
Phone : 514 340-6430
Secretary: 514 340-6472
Fax : 514 340-5634
Office : GERAD
Personal page
Other title(s)
- Holder of the Chair in Game Theory and Management
- Member of the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD)
Education
- M. Sc. (gestion), HEC Montréal
- Ph. D. (administration), HEC Montréal
Expertise
- Game theory
- New product diffusion
- Transportation and distribution of oil and gas products
- Environmental management
- Quantitative marketing
This publication selection covers the last five years.
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Journal articles (39)
PARILINA, Elena, SAVASKAN, Gönül Selin, ZACCOUR, Georges, ZEYNEP ALPARSLAN GÖK, Sirma;
« Characteristic Functions for Cooperative Interval Games »,
Journal of Dynamics and Games, vol. 12, no 2, 2025, p. 169-182.
YU, Xiaohui, XIAO, Tiaojun, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Pricing and unauthorized channel strategies for a global manufacturer considering import taxes »,
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 192, 2024, p. 1-22.
ZAMAN, Hosain, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Subsidies and pricing strategies in a vehicle scrappage program with strategic consumers »,
Central European Journal of Operations Research, vol. 32, no 2, 2024, p. 457-481.
CHAAB, Jafar, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Dynamic pricing in the presence of social externalities and reference-price effect »,
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 122, 2024, p. 1-19.
PARILINA, Elena, YAO, Fanjun, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Pricing and investment in manufacturing and logistics when environmental reputation matters »,
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 184, 2024, p. 1-23.
PETROPOULOS, Fotios, ...,, LAPORTE, Gilbert, BRETON, Michèle, CHARLIN, Laurent, ZACCOUR, Georges, ET AL.,;
« Operational Research: methods and applications »,
Journal of the Operational Research Society, vol. 75, no 3, 2024, p. 423-617.
PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Payment schemes for sustaining cooperation in dynamic games played over event trees »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 313, no 3, 2024, p. 1200-1216.
PARILINA, Elena, WRZACZEK, Stefan, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Dynamic Oligopolistic Competition with Uncertainty and Supply Disruption Effects »,
International Game Theory Review, vol. 26, no 2, 2024, p. 1-21.
KANANI-KUCHESFEHANI, Elnaz, PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Revenue and cost sharing contract in a dynamic closed-loop supply chain with uncertain parameters »,
Annals of Operations Research, vol. 322, no 2, 2023, p. 851-877.
BERNHARD, Pierre, DESCHAMPS, Marc, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Large satellite constellations and space debris: Exploratory analysis of strategic management of the space commons »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 304, no 3, 2023, p. 1140-1157.
DAHMOUNI, Ilyass, PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Great fish war with moratorium »,
Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 355, 2023, p. 1-13.
DE GIOVANNI, Pietro, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« A survey of dynamic models of product quality »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 307, no 3, 2023, p. 991-1007.
MUKHERJEE, Arka, DA SILVA CARVALHO, Maria Margarida, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Managing quality and pricing during a product recall: An analysis of pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis regimes »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 307, no 1, 2023, p. 406-420.
CETIN, Can Baris, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Remanufacturing with innovative features: A strategic analysis »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 310, no 2, 2023, p. 655-669.
SADANA, Utsav, REDDY, Puduru Viswanadha, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Feedback Nash equilibria in differential games with impulse control »,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no 8, 2023, p. 4523-4538.
CRETTEZ, Bertrand, HAYEK, Naïla, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« When is frugality optimal? »,
Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 125, 2023, p. 65-75.
RASOULI, Nadia, AMIN-NASERI, Mohammad Reza, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Pricing and order quantity of substitutes in two inventory-related markets »,
International Transactions in Operational Research, vol. 29, no 2, 2022, p. 1246-1273.
OUBRAHAM, Aichouche, SAINT-PIERRE, Patrick, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Viability of a multi-parcel agroecological system »,
Ecological Modelling, vol. 470, 2022, p. 1-17.
PARILINA, Elena, REDDY, Puduru Viswanadha, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Endogenous Duration of Long-term Agreements in Cooperative Dynamic Games with Nontransferable Utility »,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 195, no 3, 2022, p. 808-836.
PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Sustainable Cooperation in Dynamic Games on Event Trees with Players’ Asymmetric Beliefs »,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 194, no 1, 2022, p. 92-120.
SALHAB, Rabih, LE NY, Jérôme, MALHAME, Roland P., ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Dynamic marketing policies with rating-sensitive consumers: A mean-field games approach »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 299, no 3, 2022, p. 1079-1093.
CHAAB, Jafar, SALHAB, Rabih, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Dynamic pricing and advertising in the presence of strategic consumers and social contagion: A mean-field game approach »,
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 109, 2022, p. 1-19.
FARSHBAF GERANMAYEH, Amir, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Optimal allocation of an opaque product with consumer learning »,
Automatica, vol. 142, 2022, p. 1-14.
DEBIA, Sébastien, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Reciprocal Dumping under Dichotomous Regulation »,
Energy Journal, vol. 43, no 5, 2022, p. 249-270.
PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Payment schemes for sustaining cooperation in dynamic games »,
Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, vol. 139, 2022, p. 1-19.
YAO, Fanjun, PARILINA, Elena, ZACCOUR, Georges, GAO, Hongwei;
« Accounting for consumers’ environmental concern in supply chain contracts »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 301, no 3, 2022, p. 987-1006.
DE GIOVANNI, Pietro, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« A selective survey of game-theoretic models of closed-loop supply chains »,
Annals of Operations Research, vol. 314, no 1, 2022, p. 77-116.
PAZOKI, Mostafa, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Dynamic strategic interactions between a municipality and a firm in the presence of an extended producer responsibility regulation »,
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 292, 2021, p. 1-10.
SADANA, Utsav, REDDY, Puduru Viswanadha, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Nash equilibria in nonzero-sum differential games with impulse control »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 295, no 2, 2021, p. 792-805.
SADANA, Utsav, REDDY, Puduru Viswanadha, BASAR, Tamer, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Sampled-Data Nash Equilibria in Differential Games with Impulse Controls »,
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 190, no 3, 2021, p. 999-1022.
ZAMAN, Hosain, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Optimal government scrappage subsidies in the presence of strategic consumers »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 288, no 3, 2021, p. 829-838.
CRETTEZ, Bertrand, HAYEK, Naïla, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Optimal dynamic management of a charity under imperfect altruism »,
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 100, 2021, p. 1-15.
FARSHBAF GERANMAYEH, Amir, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Pricing and advertising in a supply chain in the presence of strategic consumers »,
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, vol. 101, 2021, p. 1-20.
CRETTEZ, Bertrand, HAYEK, Naïla, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Existence and characterization of optimal dynamic pricing strategies with reference-price effects »,
Central European Journal of Operations Research, vol. 28, no 2, 2020, p. 441-459.
OUBRAHAM, Aichouche, SAINT-PIERRE, Patrick, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Viability of Agroecological Systems under Climatic Uncertainty »,
Sustainability, vol. 12, no 15, 2020, p. 1-29.
ZHANG, Qiao, ZACCOUR, Georges, ZHANG, Jianxiong, TANG, Wansheng;
« Strategic pricing under quality signaling and imitation behaviors in supply chains »,
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 142, 2020, p. 1-23.
VARDAR, Baris, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Exploitation of a Productive Asset in the Presence of Strategic Behavior and Pollution Externalities »,
Mathematics, vol. 8, no 10, 2020, p. 1-28.
LONG, Ngo Van, TIDBALL, Mabel, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Optimal harvesting and taxation when accounting for the marine environmental quality of the fishery »,
Natural Resource Modeling, vol. 33, no 3, 2020, p. 1-29.
CRETTEZ, Bertrand, HAYEK, Naïla, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Do charities spend more on their social programs when they cooperate than when they compete? »,
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 283, no 3, 2020, p. 1055-1063.
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Books (1)
PARILINA, Elena, REDDY, Puduru Viswanadha, ZACCOUR, Georges;
Theory and Applications of Dynamic Games: A Course on Noncooperative and Cooperative Games Played over Event Trees,
Springer, 2022.
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Book chapters (1)
CRETTEZ, Bertrand, HAYEK, Naïla, ZACCOUR, Georges;
« Non-deceptive Counterfeiting and Consumer Welfare: A Differential Game Approach »,
Advances in Dynamic Games : Games of Conflict, Evolutionary Games, Economic Games, and Games Involving Common Interest, Birkhäuser, 2020, p. 255-298.
This award and honor selection covers the last five years.
ZACCOUR, Georges
Grand Prix de recherche Pierre-Laurin 2021, Ce prix souligne la contribution exceptionnelle en recherche d’un professeur titulaire ou d’un chercheur titulaire de HEC Montréal pour l’ensemble de sa carrière à l’École., HEC Montréal, 2021
Grand Prix de recherche Pierre-Laurin 2021, Ce prix souligne la contribution exceptionnelle en recherche d’un professeur titulaire ou d’un chercheur titulaire de HEC Montréal pour l’ensemble de sa carrière à l’École., HEC Montréal, 2021
This selection of supervision activities covers the last five years.
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Dissertation direction – PhD in Administration (6)
Essays on Omnichannel Fulfillment Strategies, by Mahsa Mahboob Ghodsi
March 2024
March 2024
Essays on Strategic Interactions in Remanufacturing, Environmental Quality Investments, and Greenwashing, by Can Baris Cetin
October 2023
October 2023
Essays on Dynamic Pricing with Nuances of Consumer Behavior and Social Influences, by Jafar Chaab
March 2023
March 2023
Essays on Ecological and economic Viability of Agricultural Systems, by Aichouche Oubraham
September 2021
September 2021
Essays on Differential Games with Impulse Control, by Utsav Sadana
September 2021
September 2021
Vehicle Scrappage Subsidies in the Presence of Strategic Consumers, by Hosain Zaman
March 2021
March 2021
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Supervised project supervision – MSc in Management (1)
Applying analytics to monitor spend and financial exposure in supply chain , by Rida El Boustani
September 2020
September 2020
Winter 2026
MATH 60602
Fall 2025
MATH 60622
Fall 2024
MATH 60622
MATH 80685A