A monopolistic and oligopolistic stochastic flow revenue management model

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1098-1109

  Xu, Xiaowei ^a   Hopp, Wallace J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential games; Dynamic pricing; Geometric Brownian motion; Martingales; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN EQUILIBRIUM; DIFFERENTIAL GAMES; GEOMETRIC BROWNIAN MOTION; MARTINGALES; PRICING POLICY; RETAILERS; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; REVENUE MANAGEMENT MODELS;

COST ACCOUNTING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RETAIL STORES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33847018847     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0336     Document Type: Article

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