Effective marketing depends on knowledge of customer behavior and competition. This is especially true for Location Based marketers who risk sending alerts at inopportune moments or to the wrong targets. This study analyzes check-ins around Times Square in New York City using Foursquare, a...

De Fleur (1956) provides the earliest evidence of diminishing returns. He finds a common logarithmic pattern for leaflets dropped and message recalled in field experiment. Since then, many researchers have applied logarithmic or square root patterns to capture the effect of diminishing returns...

We examine pricing policy for a monopolist facing uncertain demand in a market characterized by dynamics on the demand side (such as diffusion or saturation effects) and/or on the cost side (experience curve effects). Our model explicitly incorporates the impact of demand uncertainty, and thus...