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...

Many service industries use revenue management to balance demand and capacity. The assumption of risk-neutrality lies at the heart of the classical approaches, which aim at maximizing expected revenue. In this paper, we give a comprehensive overview of the existing approaches, most of which were...

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...

In deregulated markets, electricity is usually traded in advance and the advance commitments have a time lag of several periods. For example, in the German intraday market, the seller commits to providing electricity 45 minutes before the 15-minute interval in which delivery has to be made. We...