Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response

We study a problem of dynamic pricing faced by a vendor with limited inventory, uncertain about demand, aiming to maximize expected discounted revenue over an infinite time horizon. The vendor learns from purchase data, so his strategy must take into account the impact of price on both revenue and f...

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Main Authors: Farias, Vivek F. (Contributor), Van Roy, Benjamin (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2011-07-13T20:23:32Z.
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