Modelling monopolist pricing and protection period decisions for new products under warranty

Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 231-252

  Mesak, Hani I ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion models of innovations; Non linear least squares; Optimal pricing; Optimal warranty period; Pontryagin's maximum principle

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DIFFUSION MODELS; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES; OPTIMAL PRICING; OPTIMAL WARRANTY PERIOD;

MARKETING;

EID: 0030264312     PISSN: 01432087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1514(199610/12)17:4<231::AID-OCA573>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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