W are the drivers of retailer pricing tactics over time? Based on multivariate time-series analysis of two rich data sets, we quantify the relative importance of competitive retailer prices, pricing history, brand demand, wholesale prices, and retailer category-management considerations as drivers of retail prices. Interestingly, competitive retailer prices account for less than 10% of the over...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: Comparison between the papers discussing integrated inventory model with a trade credit. Author s Demand rate Production rate Production/purchase cost Freight rate Wholesale price Abad and Jaggi 39 Retail price sensitive Constant Constant — Constant Jaber and Osman 40 Constant — — — Constant Yang and Wee 41 Retail price sensitive — Constant — Constant Sheen and T...

We present an equilibrium search model that parsimoniously rationalizes the use of auctions as a sales mechanism for new-in-box goods—a frequent occurrence in online retail markets—and analyze whether the existence of these auctions is welfare enhancing relative to a market consisting only of posted prices. Buyers have a deadline by which the good must be purchased, and sellers choose between a...

Application of price bundling strategies in retail banking in Europe is a report based on an empirical study of price bundling practices in Southern, Central and Northern Europe. The current report defines three core price bundling models that are in one form or another applied by the interviewed banks. The models are cost efficiency bundling, cross-selling bundling and loyalty bundling. Price ...

Dynamic programming has been used to solve numerous complex problems in business and engineering. This study applies dynamic programming to a retail decision-making problem related to trade credit. A price, shelf-space, and time-dependent demand function is introduced to model the finite time horizon inventory. Trade credit was considered in the model because suppliers commonly provide retailer...

The paper assesses the welfare effects of different ways of allocating input price risk between a regulated utility, consumers and speculators in a futures market. A risk-averse utility setting a fixed retail price requires a price that exceeds expected marginal cost, unless an efficient futures market is available. The firm bears no risk when input price risk is transferred to consumers, but c...

Widespread participation of retail electricity consumers in short-term wholesale electricity markets throughout the United States is rapidly becoming technologically feasible. A number of jurisdictions are installing or have installed interval meters for a large fraction or all of their retail customers. With this technology in place, the only remaining barrier is whether state regulators will ...

This study tests the Miller (1977) hypothesis as an explanation for stock price behavior around technology firms’ earnings announcements during the late 1990s. Specifically, we examine whether the anomalous tendency for stock prices to increase (decrease) before (after) earnings announcements during this period is associated with an increase (decrease) in investor disagreement before (after) th...

the iranian poultry sector has experienced many significant structural changes in recent years. such changes may have influenced price dynamics and transmission of shocks through marketing channels especially on retail markets. this paper investigate price transmission, threshold behavior and asymmetric adjustment in poultry sector of ardebil (ar), east azerbaijan (ea) and west azerbaijan (wa) ...

Retail energy providers (REPs) can employ different strategies such as offering demand response (DR) programs, participating in bilateral contracts, and employing self-generation distributed generation (DG) units to avoid financial losses in the volatile electricity markets. In this paper, the problem of setting dynamic retail sales price by a REP is addressed with a robust optimization techniq...