objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of … these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring price), may be utilized prior to competitive entry. The second option …, aggressive (predatory) pricing, may be executed post-entry. The effectiveness of both of these options is still controversial …

competition on the firm’s productionand pricing decisions. We characterize the firm’s optimal strategy and find conditionsunder …

, we need a differentiated pricing scheme, as supposed to the flat-rate scheme employed by the Internet service providers … designed a pricing strategy for Admission Control and bandwidth assignment. Despite the variety of existing pricing strategies …, the common theme is that the appropriate pricing policy rewards users for behaving in ways to improve the overall …

We consider the optimal pricing problem in a service facility in order to maximize its long-run average profit per unit … interested in both static and dynamic pricing for all three types of congestion penalties. In the static case, we demonstratethat …

First, we analyze the optimal design of a markdown pricing mechanism with preannounced prices. In the presence of … the optimal pricing decisions of the seller assuming that the seller has incomplete information about the customer demand …. Each buyer demands multiple units of the homogeneous product that the seller is offering via a priority pricing mechanism …

pricing and negotiation. Hence, this dissertation visits two problem domains in operations management, assuming that a …-constrained manufacturer's wholesale pricing problem, assuming that the retailer is free to choose sales formats. The first problem considers a … price that a retailer would choose in the take-it-or-leave-it pricing. This price premium helps the retailer extract more …

Although take-it-or-leave-it pricing is the main mode of operation for many retailers, a number of retailers discreetly … haggle-prone customers negotiate down. In order to effectively measure the benefit of dynamic pricing and negotiation in such … a retail environment, one must take into account the interactions among inventory, dynamic pricing, and negotiation. The …

Assortment planning and pricing are among the most important strategic questions for many firms. These decisions are … assortment, pricing and inventory decisions are complicated enough to push many firms to make these decisions separately …, ignoring their synergy. This dissertation targets this gap by presenting joint assortment and pricing models with inventory …