Revenue management of callable products

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 550-564

  Gallego, Guillermo ^a   Kou, S G ^a   Phillips, Robert ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Nomis Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity allocation; Overbooking; Product design; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY ALLOCATION; OVERBOOKING;

EARNINGS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 41549123998     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0782     Document Type: Review

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