Pricing is one of the major aspects of decision making in supply chain. In the previous works mostly a centralized environment is considered indicating the retailers cannot independently apply their decisions on the pricing strategy. Although in a two-echelon decentralized environment it may be possible that supply chain contributors have encountered with different market power situations which...

Chapter Outline Introduction 61 Background 63 Distributional Effects of Dynamic Pricing 65 Barriers to Dynamic Pricing 69 Unfairness of Flat Rate Pricing 71 Dynamic Pricing in Other Industries 73 Overcoming the Barriers to Dynamic Pricing 74 The Effect of Dynamic Pricing on Low-Income Consumers 75 Accommodating Potential Objections 77 Conclusions 78 Appendix: Quantifying the Hedging Cost Premiu...

The competitors in the airline industry often rely on pricing strategy to capture more sales as a main mean of competition. Thus, dynamic pricing is often utilized to maximize profit while allowing better pricing against competition at the same time. In order for dynamic pricing to be effective, airline company has to take in consideration both internal and external information. Tactical pricin...

The main objective of this article is to describe the importance of relationship of various components of pricing methods for attaining competitive advantage in market. Pricing methods comprise of Product pricing methods and Service pricing methods. Generally the Product pricing methods consist of product, price, place and promotion and it is generally used for pricing methods of tangible goods...

Derivatives are alternative financial instruments which extend traders opportunities to achieve some financial goals. They are risk management instruments that are related to a data in the future, and also they react to uncertain prices. Study on pricing futures can provide useful tools to understand the stochastic behavior of prices to manage the risk of price volatility. Thus, this study eval...

Under the rising pressure for low carbon energy transitions in Northeast Asia (NEA), interconnecting local power grids interstate trade allows to share reserve capacity and redistribute intermittent renewable across time zones, contributing regional sustainability. Using a linear programming model that minimizes total system costs meet hourly demand, we build hypothetical electricity transmissi...