Many industries use dynamic pricing on an operational level to maximize revenue from selling a fixed capacity over a finite horizon. Classical risk-neutral approaches do not accommodate the risk aversion often encountered in practice. We add to the scarce literature on risk aversion by...

In practice, human-decision makers often feel uncomfortable with the risk-neutral revenue management systems' output. Reasons include a low number of repetitions of similar events, a critical impact of the achieved revenue for economic survival, or simply business constraints imposed by...

The development of toll road infrastructure in developing countries included Indonesia still slow down. There are many problems to build toll road infrastructure, one of them is financing. The need of toll road infrastructure investment in Indonesia is Rp66,751.95 Billions to build 768.65 km of...

The concept of path dependence is used to compare the evolution of the organizational forms of two groups of transportation and warehousing firms, the Dutch vemen and the Antwerp naties, that operated in seaports between c.1500 and 1900 and beyond. Their adoption of cooperative forms reflected...

The current study explores the asymmetric cost behaviour in US shipping industry. More precisely, it investigates whether various categories of expenses show asymmetric behaviour after increases or decreases in the stream of their revenues and examines the impact of leverage on managers'...

This paper investigates the economic rationale in defining an essential facility also considering the evolution of competition policy decisions in US and EU. In particular, we propose a test to distinguish between an abusive refusal to deal by a dominant firm and the application of the essential...