This Note argues that, while the Pricing Regulation is a positive step in the development of a common market within the EEC, it is protectionist in its approach to developing nations. Part I analyzes the complaint against Hyundai in the context of the international shipping industry. Part II examines the EEC’s conflicting policy goals in adopting the Pricing Regulation. Part III discusses the d...

We study the optimization of dynamic pricing in a queueing model with a finite buffer, where arrival rates depend on advertised price levels.We apply our study to a pricing policy in a cloud computing service provider setup. The main result of this paper is the multi-threshold structure of the optimal policy. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Cooper (1986) examined the equilibrium of the retroactive most-favored-customer pricing policy by using a two-period duopoly model. He showed that the most-favoredcustomer policy enables both firms to offer higher prices and to enjoy higher profits. Neilson and Winter (1992) showed that even if one firm in a price-setting duopoly adopts the most-favored-customer policy, the equilibrium does not...

This paper examines an integrated decision-making process regarding pricing for uncertain demand and sourcing from uncertain supply, which are often studied separately in the literature. Our analysis of the integrated system suggests that the base stock list price policy fails to achieve optimality even under deterministic demand. Instead, the optimal policy is characterized by two critical val...

This paper focuses on urban road pricing as a demand management policy that is often regarded as radical and generally unacceptable. Road pricing often gets delayed or abandoned due to low acceptability. This may be due to the fact that complex interactions and drivers of change affect road transport management and require cooperation within implementation networks. The implementation network i...

Road pricing has received increasing attention over the past decades, both in the academic literature and in transport policy circles. Undoubtedly, this is motivated on the one hand by the increasing need for pricing as an effective instrument to curb growing transport-related problems such as congestion and emissions, and on the other by technical advances that make the implementation of road ...

In a network with enhancements for QoS support, pricing of network services based on the level of service, usage, and congestion provides a natural and equitable incentive for applications to adapt their sending rates according to network conditions. In this paper, we first propose a dynamic, congestion-sensitive pricing algorithm, and also develop the demand behavior of adaptive users based on...

We consider the joint pricing and inventory control problem for a single product whose demand distribution in each period is determined both by whether or not a sale price is offered in the current period, and the number of periods since the last time the sale price was offered. We show that optimal inventory ordering policy is a state dependent base stock policy; however, the optimal pricing p...

The potential of parking-pricing as a policy tool within the field of transport demand management is gaining greater acknowledgement as empirical research highlights the potential impact it can have on trip generation and modal choice. However, although the aggregate effect of a TDM pricing measure is often noted or estimated, the potential distributional impact of pricing measures initially, a...

This study examines the effectiveness of two prevailingly used sets of mutually exclusive surcharge policies in C2C online auctions. The first policy is the option of using an all-inclusive pricing strategy or a partitioned pricing strategy. The second policy entails the flexibility of shipping policies based on shipping destinations (domestic shipping versus worldwide shipping). The impacts of...