Revenue management with end-of-period discounts in the presence of customer learning

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-84

  Ovchinnikov, Anton ^a   Milner, Joseph M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

customer learning; revenue management; self regulating; smoothing; strategic consumers; wait or buy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855533372     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01243.x     Document Type: Article

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