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In this paper we first show that the gains achievable by integrating pricing and inventory control are usually small … provide some analytical results forthis more complex model. We thus conclude that integrated pricing/inventory models could …
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Operations of publicly traded firms differ from privately owned firms because public firms' managers make decisions based on their own interests. In this paper, we study how stock market pressure may influence a manager's inventory and operational management. Our model is a straightforward...
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The ability to provide a cost-effective solution to improve hotel organizations efficiency through inventory management has made RFID technology one of today’s most potential deployment technologies. Hotel organizations are invariably competing in assuring the service quality and are facing...
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W e develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...
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pricing problem understochastic reference price e ffect. Stochastic optimal control theory is applied to the problem to derive … inventory management and dynamic pricing. Chapter 2 introduces the Extended Affinely Adjustable Robust Counterpart(EAARC). We … what has been proposed by Ben-Tal et al. while retaining tractability.Chapter 3 looks at the classical joint inventory-and-pricing …
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We consider a two-echelon supply chain with two retailers and one supplier. The retailers order from the supplier who makes all the decisions and bears all the inventory risk. Throughout this dissertation, we consider two different inventory systems: areserved inventory system and a pooled...
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In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are bothmonopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competitionbetween complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements,A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when purchasedtogether. Good A is...
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on the size of routing tables, and introduces a pricing scheme that seeks to better reapportion the resulting costs. The …
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about the optimal pricing policies or adoption drivers of CDNs. We address these questions using analytic models of the … bursty traffic, and that content providers with bursty traffic realize lower surplus. Similarly, we find that a pricing … policy that accounts for both the mean and variance in traffic such as percentile- based pricing does better than pure volume …
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This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might occur when cable TV providers compete with local exchange carriers. Each firm has a fixed capacity that it can use to offer two different services, such as telephony or video. We...
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