This paper integrates competitive pricing and network design problems for the short life cycle products. The pricing problem determines selling prices of the products for different life cycle phases in a competitive market, as well as acquisition management of returned products. Besides, the selling and acquisition prices are related to the distance between distribution centers and customers. T...

The literature on ERPT has not considered product-level comparative advantage (CA) as a source of heterogeneous firm productivity. However, a firm’s production choice may determine its productivity level and also its pricing decision as both the degree of market power and the fixed costs of exporting vary across products. This paper empirically analyses the export pricing behaviour of Chinese a...

In this paper we investigate the simulation of real and reactive power spot markets. While spot pricing of real power remains a viable option for the creation of a power system market, the future of a reactive power spot market remains cloudy. The large capital investment portion needed in pricing reactive power as well as the highly volatile nature of reactive power spot prices makes the creat...

This study deals with the effects of a supply chain (SC) with single product, multiple retailers and a manufacturer, where the manufacturer(he) produces lotsize of the product that contains a random portion of imperfect quality item. The imperfect quality products are sold in a secondary shop. The new contribution of this paper is a new non-linear demand function. Demand of the end customers va...

A key feature of food products is their perishability. Within the short marketing window that characterizes most food and ag products, demand is typically highly stochastic and difficult to predict. This combination of features poses substantial challenges to retailers when pricing products and has implications for performance that ripples through vertical food chains. For many food products, p...

Pricing on e-commerce platforms is highly challenging. Sellers typically i) rival against dozens of competitors, ii) decide on prices for thousands of products, and iii) face steadily changing market situations. With respect to pricing, the challenge is to circumvent the curse of dimensionality to dynamically price products for a given market situation in a timely manner. In this project, we cr...

Beginning the 21st century, the FPD (Flat Panel Display) market has been growing massively. It is difficult for the market to establish pricing strategies according to the development of technology and the change of market due to technological variances and diverse sizes of products such as the LCD, PDP, Braun tube, and projection television (TV) in the FPD market. The preexisting methods for p...