Dynamic pricing with financial milestones: Feedback-form policies

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1715-1731

  Besbes, Omar ^a   Maglaras, Costis ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic analysis; Dynamic pricing; Estimation; Feedback; Market uncertainty; Real estate; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

DEMAND MODELS; DYNAMIC PRICING; FEEDBACK FORMS; MARKET UNCERTAINTY; OPTIMAL POLICIES; REAL ESTATE; RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; REVENUE MAXIMIZING; TIME POINTS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMMERCE; ESTIMATION; FEEDBACK; REGIONAL PLANNING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

SALES;

EID: 84866402378     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1513     Document Type: Article

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