An Overview of Pricing Models for Revenue Management
Posted: 26 Sep 2003
Abstract
In this paper, we examine the research and results of dynamic pricing policies and their relation to Revenue Management. The survey is based on a generic Revenue Management problem in which a perishable and non-renewable set of resources satisfy stochastic price-sensitive demand processes over a finite period of time. In this class of problems, the owner (or the seller) of these resources uses them to produce and offer a menu of final products to the end customers. Within this context, we formulate the stochastic control problem of capacity that the seller faces: how to dynamically set the menu and the quantity of products and their corresponding prices in order to maximize the total revenue over the selling horizon.
Keywords: Survey, Revenue Management, Pricing Policies, Perishable and Non-renewable Resources, Stochastic Demand Processes
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