With the development of the Internet and E-commerce, retailers often offer pre-orders for new to-be-released products. To encourage pre-orders, retailers such as Amazon offer pre-order price guarantee (PG). That is, if the product price drops before or on the release date, pre-order consumers...

We investigate optimal pricing and capacity planning decisions for product-line settings such as introducing a new product or dropping an existing one. We consider a two-product, two-period model with stochastic demands, where price and capacity decisions are made at the outset. Investment in...