Customer behavior modeling in revenue management and auctions: A review and new research opportunities

ZJM Shen, X Su - Production and operations management, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Customer behavior modeling has been gaining increasing attention in the operations
management community. In this paper we review current models of customer behavior in the …

Recent developments in dynamic pricing research: multiple products, competition, and limited demand information

M Chen, ZL Chen - Production and Operations Management, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Dynamic pricing enables a firm to increase revenue by better matching supply with demand,
responding to shifting demand patterns, and achieving customer segmentation. In the last 20 …

Dynamic pricing in the presence of reference price effect and consumer strategic behaviour

K Chen, Y Zha, LC Alwan, L Zhang - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a model for designing two-stage dynamic pricing strategies when the
seller faces strategic consumers in the presence of a reference price effect. The consumers …

Optimal dynamic pricing of perishable items by a monopolist facing strategic consumers

Y Levin, J McGill, M Nediak - Production and Operations …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
We introduce a dynamic pricing model for a monopolistic company selling a perishable
product to a finite population of strategic consumers (customers who are aware that pricing …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal pricing strategy: How to sell to strategic consumers?

M Wu, Y Ran, SX Zhu - International Journal of Production Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Technological advances are preparing consumers to plan their purchases strategically.
Selling to strategic consumers at a fixed price forgoes the profit from salvaging inventory …

Markdown or everyday low price? The role of behavioral motives

Ö Özer, Y Zheng - Management Science, 2016 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study a seller's optimal pricing and inventory strategies when behavioral (nonpecuniary)
motives affect consumers' purchase decisions. In particular, the seller chooses between two …

Markdown pricing with unknown fraction of strategic customers

AJ Mersereau, D Zhang - Manufacturing & Service …, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
A growing segment of the revenue management and pricing literature assumes “strategic”
customers who are forward-looking in their pursuit of utility. Recognizing that such behavior …

Dynamic pricing vs. pre-announced pricing in supply chain with consumer heterogeneity

J Sheng, S Du, T Nie, Y Zhu - Electronic Commerce Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dynamic pricing and pre-announced pricing are prevalent operational strategies in practice.
In this paper, we develop a two-period game-theoretical model to investigate the retailer's …

Rationing capacity in advance selling to signal quality

M Yu, HS Ahn, R Kapuscinski - Management Science, 2015 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a seller who can sell her product over two periods, advance and spot. The
seller has private information about the product quality, which is unknown to customers in …

Pricing and advertising in a supply chain in the presence of strategic consumers

A Farshbaf-Geranmayeh, G Zaccour - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
It is well known that strategic consumers can harm firms' profits by delaying their purchases,
to buy at a discounted price. A retailer can induce consumers to purchase at the right price …