We study assortment optimization problems under a natural variant of the multinomial logit model where the customers are willing to focus only on a certain number of products that provide the largest utilities. In particular, each customer has a rank cutoff, characterizing the number of products...

In this paper, we introduce the Multi-Purchase Multinomial Logit choice model, which extends the random utility maximization framework of the classical Multinomial Logit model to a multiple-purchase setting. In this model, customers sample random utilities for each offered product as in the...

Problem definition: Online retailers disclose product availability to influence customer decisions, as a form of pressure selling designed to compel customers to rush into a purchase. Can the revelation of this information drive sales and profitability? We study the effect of disclosing product...