Technical note-Dynamic pricing and demand learning with limited price experimentation

Operations Research

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1722-1731

  Cheung, Wang Chi ^a   Simchi Levi, David ^b   Wang, He ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Learning earning trade o; Price experimentation; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONS;

BUSINESS CONSTRAINTS; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DEMAND LEARNING; DYNAMIC PRICING; DYNAMIC PRICING MODELS; PRICE EXPERIMENTATION; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL NOTES;

COSTS;

EID: 85034620116     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2017.1629     Document Type: Article

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