Learning in nonlinear pricing with unknown utility functions

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 375-392

  Berg, Kimmo ^a   Ehtamo, Harri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computation; Learning; Limited information; Nonlinear pricing; Optimal screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249122139     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-009-0640-2     Document Type: Article

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