We use data on the e-retail business of TMall to consider scalable forecasting and revenuemanagement (RM) for thousands of items. We use forecasts that depend on the novel concept of asymmetric formation of RPs. The related literature studies RPs empirically and theoretically but ignores...

This paper studies the effect of two regulatory instruments - a price cap and a reference price system - a mandatory substitution rule, and the combination of both on generic competition in a Salop-type model with an off-patent brand-name drug and n differentiated generic versions. The price cap...