A major obstacle to wider adoption of the newsvendor model is the difficulty of obtaining its key input---the demand … of demand quantity from a panel of experts and uses the degree of disagreement between experts as a proxy for demand … based on a tripartite decomposition of the demand vector into total demand, ordered proportions, and ranking. We also …

the demand effects of opening-week box office rankings. We allowed two potential channels through which such rankings … affect consumer demand: quality signaling and information diffusion. The results show that a higher rank in the opening …

Rank demand systems that are either conditioned on some good (such as durables) or are separable from that good, are … shown to be identical to unconditional demand systems having rank or + 1. More generally, the rank of a conditional demand … system or a separable subsystem is a lower bound on the rank of the corresponding demand system over all goods. This …