Prospect theory and the newsvendor problem

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1057-1062

  Nagarajan, Mahesh ^a   Shechter, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Newsvendor problem; Prospect Theory; Risk preference

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; DECISION PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; NEWSVENDOR PROBLEM; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL ORDER QUANTITY; PROSPECT THEORY; RISK PREFERENCE;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84899478622     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1804     Document Type: Article

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