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作者：Gong, Yeming (Yale); de Koster, Rene B. M.; Frenk, J. B. G. (Hans); Gabor, Adriana F.
作者单位：emlyon business school; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Sabanci University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Self-storage is a booming industry. Both private customers and companies can rent temporary space from such facilities. The design of self-storage warehouses differs from other facility designs in its focus on revenue maximization. A major question is how to design self-storage facilities to fit market segments and accommodate volatile demand to maximize revenue. Customers that cannot be accommodated with a space size of their choice can be either rejected or upscaled to a larger space. Based ...
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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Northwestern University
摘要：Click tracking is gaining in popularity, and the practice of web analytics is growing fast. Whether strategic customers are willing to visit a website when they know their clicks may be tracked is an important yet complex problem, which depends on various factors. Using a newsvendor framework, we examine this problem by focusing on the operational factor: how product availability induces strategic customers to voluntarily provide advance demand information. We find that a strong Nash equilibri...
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作者：Lu, Ye; Simchi-Levi, David
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：In this note, we study the price-setting newsvendor problem. We use three conditions, the log-convexity of the coefficient of variation, the log-concavity of the deterministic profit function, and the log-convexity of the random noise's expectation conditional on having leftover inventory to establish the log-concavity of the retailer's expected profit function. This new result is complementary to existing results and removes some assumptions in the pricing and inventory coordination literatur...
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作者：Kuo, Chia-Wei; Ahn, Hyun-Soo; Aydin, Goker
作者单位：National Taiwan University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This article examines the choice of pricing policy (posted pricing or negotiation) toward end customers in a supply chain. Many retailers actively decide whether or not to encourage negotiation on the shop floor. Of course, the retailer's pricing policy influences not only the retailer's profit, but also the profits of the manufacturers who sell through the retailer. However, little is known about the forces that shape the pricing policy when two self-interested parties interact in a supply ch...
