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suboptimal performance under decentralized control. For a given service discipline, we derive optimal class-specific pricing … requirements for all customer classes. For the M/G/1 first-come-first-served queue, we show that a single pricing scheme that is … result demonstrates that, under suitable conditions, simple and undifferentiated pricing can coordinate complex queueing …
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We consider a model for optimal pricing and capacity for a service facility. The problem is formulated as one of …
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a generalization of an input-pricing model introduced by Dewan and Mendelson and further examined by Stidham. At the … customers base their join/balk decisions on previous prices. We extend the discrete-time, dynamic-system pricing model of …
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revenue-maximizing and socially optimal equilibria under uniform pricing, preemptive, and nonpreemptive priority auctions with … and provider profit over uniform pricing, which are dramatically larger for the preemptive mechanism. Both auctions …
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This paper studies optimal pricing and capacity decisions for a service facility in an environment where users' delay … delay cost and capacity cost. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the optimality of a pricing rule that charges …
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AMS classifications: 90D12; 90B35
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to moral hazard problems. The headquarters designs incentive schemes such that the use of the common facility is optimal …
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We analyze the allocation of priority in queues via simple bidding mechanisms. In our model, the stochastically arriving customers are privately informed about their own processing time. They make bids upon arrival at a queue whose length is unobservable. We consider two bidding schemes that...
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This paper develops alternative models explaining why households with credit need to finance their projects (enterprises) avoid formal credit. More importantly it argues that the problem of avoidance of formal credit and ensuring credit access is not necessarily restricted to the small borrower...
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In this paper we introduce an activity-based modeling approach for evaluating the traveler costs of transport network disruptions. The model handles several important aspects of such events: increases in travel time may be very long in relation to the normal day-to-day fluctuations; the impact...
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