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Description:: When demand is volatile and uncertain, prices often cannot adequately respond to demand shifts because these shifts are not known when prices are set. In this dissertation, I use the hotel industry--- an industry with a high degree of demand uncertainty and capacity constraints, which amplify the cost of setting...
Keyword:: Pricing, Information economics, Structural econometrics, Hotels, Demand uncertainty, and Industrial organization
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Leisten, Matthew
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_744948 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15150

Description:: One of the main drivers of complexity in a service system is the dependence between different random variables describing the system. For example, the queue lengths at different time points and the waiting times of different items (jobs, customers) in queue are strongly dependent. To reduce dependence-related complexities, it is...
Keyword:: Pricing, Fluid Approximation, Queing Model, Service Systems, and Dependencies
Subject:: Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Creator:: Chenguang Wu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/30/2019
Date Modified:: 09/30/2019
Date Created:: 1/1/2018
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Firms are facing reputational crises with increasing regularity. Despite this, relatively little is known about what types of firm actions consumers will judge to be reprehensible, and how firms should respond once a reputational crisis has occurred. In this dissertation I focus on two specific topics related to firm reputational...
Keyword:: Trust, Pricing, Fairness, Reputation, Price Increases, and Autonomy
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Benjamin Jerome Neuwirth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/07/2019
Date Modified:: 03/07/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Consumers often base their decisions on impressions of the overall price level of a store. For example, decisions of where to shop, whether to buy an item or keep looking for a better price, and whether to buy a more or less expensive option can all be influenced by whether...
Keyword:: Pricing, Retail, Buying, Vertical Extensions, Price image, and Browsing
Subject:: Marketing
Creator:: Ryan Hamilton
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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