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The cutting operation in the high fashion clothing industry essentially involves putting several layers of cloth on a long cutting table and fixing templates of the parts of several articles on top of the stack before the actual cutting can be initiated. This is a very time-consuming task giving...
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across mediums and movements. Finally, we show that measures of high-income consumer confidence and art market sentiment …This paper investigates the price determinants and investment performance of art. We apply a hedonic regression … resulting price index, we conclude that art has appreciated in value by a moderate 3.97% per year, in real U.S. dollar terms …
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market heterogeneous in its preference for quality and offers a quality level that maximizes its profit. We also allow for …
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individual consumer valuations are uncertain ex ante, the market size is uncertain to the firm. The firm may either commit to a … characteristics of the market; specifically, we identify conditions under which quick response increases profit (when prices are …
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challenges in making optimal pricing and production decisions. Such firms are confronted with precipitous trade-off between high … sales volume and high margins, because of the highly uncertain market demand, strategic consumer behavior, and the display … of conspicuous consumption. In this paper, we propose a model that addresses pricing and production decisions for a firm …
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importance/informativeness of each attribute. We discuss optimal pricing, the impact of consumer search on profits and social …
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actual upgrade decision, they are more likely to revert to modular upgrades. Finally, we discuss and test several pricing and …
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Motivated by applications in financial services, we consider a seller who offers prices sequentially to a stream of potential customers, observing either success or failure in each sales attempt. The parameters of the underlying demand model are initially unknown, so each price decision involves...
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, and the greater price flexibility from these discounts does not necessarily reduce profits relative to simple unit pricing …
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The Lerner relationship linking the profit-maximizing price to marginal cost and the elasticity of demand generalizes to the price-setting newsvendor, and the result resolves the puzzle over the different effects of additive and multiplicative uncertainty on the solution. Multiplicative...
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