Saeid Vafainia is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at ESCP Business School in Paris. He specializes in retailing and quantitative marketing and his research focuses on the development and application of statistical models to understand customer behavior and inform managerial decisions. He is particularly interested in research on marketing communication effectiveness and customer relationship management, utilizing granular data.  His publication has appeared in impactful marketing journals, including the Journal of Interactive Marketing and Marketing Letters. 
He is currently the Associate Editor of Social Media at the European Management Journal as well as an editorial board member at the Journal of Business and Retail Management Research. He has also been involved in several research-based consultancy projects from a variety of sectors, including retailing and communication services. He is also an affiliate professor at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


He obtained his Ph.D. in Business Economics from KU Leuven (Belgium), his MBA at the University of Tehran (Iran), and his B.A. in mechanical engineering. He has several years of experience working in the FMCG sector as a brand manager.

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Academic Articles

2024

VAFAINIA, S., R. ROODERKERK, E. BREUGELMANS, T. BIJMOLT

Decision support system development for store flyer space allocation: Leveraging own- and cross-category sales effects

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MARKETING

ESCP Impact Papers

2023

DESMICHEL, P., I. MAGGIONI, S. VAFAINIA

Non-Fungible Tokens: Are they really so futile?

ESCP Impact Papers, 2023-10-EN

Academic Articles

2021

VAFAINIA, S., E. BREUGELMANS, T. BIJMOLT

Evaluating the Impact of VAT-Free Promotion: The Role of Loyalty Program Membership and Category Characteristics

MARKETING LETTERS, 32(4), 455-476

Conference Proceedings

2020

VAFAINIA, S., T. BIJMOLT, E. BREUGELMANS

Do store flyers trigger cross-category sales? The moderating role of categories’ relatedness

European Marketing Academy

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

VAFAINIA, S

Marketing in post COVID-19 era: A guide for marketing managers

ESCP Impact Papers, 2020-07-EN

Academic Articles

2019

VAFAINIA, S.

Calling Customers to Take Action: The Impact of Incentive and Customer Characteristics on Direct Mailing Effectiveness

JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING, 45, 62-80

PhD / HDR Dissertation

2019

VAFAINIA, S

Empirical Investigations on the Effectiveness of Direct Marketing Communications

Univeristy of Leuven- Lirias, 138