BM.de: A New Pricing Strategy

Online Cashback Pricing: A New Affiliate Strategy for E-Business

This paper examines the impact of the cashback mechanism on online merchants’ affiliate and pricing strategies. Through reimbursing a portion of the transactional amount to consumers in a form of cashback, merchants are able to practice seconddegree price discrimination. We develop an analytical framework which explicitly considers the implementation cost associated with the underlying promotio...

Pricing Intermodal Freight Transport Services: A Cost-Plus-Pricing Strategy

This paper investigates transport services pricing problems faced by intermodal freight transport operators with fixed transport capacities in an intermodal freight transport network. We first present an optimal intermodal freight transport planning model to minimize the total transport cost. This model captures modality change phenomena, due time requirements, and the possibility to subcontrac...

Effective Hospital Pricing Strategy

A New Stock Model for Option Pricing in Uncertain Environment

The option-pricing problem is always an important part in modern finance. Assuming that the stock diffusion is a constant, some literature has introduced many stock models and given corresponding option pricing formulas within the framework of the uncertainty theory. In this paper, we propose a new stock model with uncertain stock diffusion for uncertain markets. Some option pricing formulas on...

Repositioning Dynamics and Pricing Strategy

We measure the revenue and cost implications to supermarkets of changing their price positioning strategy in oligopolistic downstream retail markets. Our estimates have implications for long-run market structure in the supermarket industry, and for measuring the sources of price rigidity in the economy. We exploit a unique dataset containing the price-format decisions of all supermarkets in the...