Implications of hyperbolic discounting for optimal pricing and scheduling of unpleasant services that generate future benefits

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1927-1946

  Plambeck, Erica L ^a   Wang, Qiong ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Optimization; Organizational studies; Pricing; Probability; Queues; Service; Stochastic model applications

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; QUEUES; SERVICE; STOCHASTIC MODEL APPLICATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SALES; SCHEDULING;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84881473309     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1673     Document Type: Article

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