This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.

This book integrates the fundamentals of quantitative significance, using existing estimates of the elasticities of demand for tax, health insurance, and medical services in a static microsimulation model. It serves as a guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance and provides...

Revenue Management aus Kundensicht -- Determinanten des Kaufverhaltens im Dienstleistungsbereich -- Pricing bei Dienstleistungen und Yield Management -- Zahlungsbereitschaften im Service Encounter -- Wahrgenommene Preisfairness und Ansätze zur Konfliktlösung -- Verhaltenseffekte bei...

Felix Herde entwickelt eine Steuerung für die Annahme und Einplanung von unsicheren und heterogenen Aufträgen im Kontext der Regeneration komplexer Investitionsgüter. Diese ermöglicht es, die unflexiblen Kapazitäten des Regenerationsnetzwerks sowie die begrenzten Lagerbestände effizient zu...

Kundenindividuelle Produktion — Charakteristika und Eingrenzung des Untersuchungsgegenstandes -- Revenue Management -- Advanced Planning Konzepte zur Entscheidungsunterstützung der Auftragsannahme -- Taktisch-operative Entscheidungsunterstützung durch Methoden des Revenue Managements --...

André Jerenz develops a price-based revenue management framework to support retailers in establishing better and more profitable pricing strategies, including assigning an initial asking price and the adjustment of price over time. Dr. André Jerenz promovierte extern bei Prof. Dr. Ulrich...

This book proposes capacity options as a flexible alternative air cargo contract type, and illustrates how capacity can be priced through option contracts. The analysis is accomplished by means of an analytical multivariate optimization model under price and demand uncertainty. A case study...

This book analyzes revenue management (RM) problems with flexible products and RM in broadcasting companies. It presents models and methods that explicitly take the implications of flexibility into account. In addition, it contains descriptions of algorithms to generate stochastic demand data...

This book revises the well-known capacity control problem in revenue management from the perspective of a risk-averse decision-maker. Modelling an expected utility maximizing decision maker, the problem is formulated as a risk-sensitive Markov decision process. Special emphasis is put on the...