Learning about the arrival of sales

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1699-1711

  Mason, Robin ^a,b   Välimäki, Juuso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Learning; Optimal stopping; Uncertain demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960246999     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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