TY  - INPR
TI  - Certainty-Equivalent Pricing with Dependent Demand and Limited Price-Changing Opportunities
Y1  - 2025/02/28/
AV  - public
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10205508
N2  - When underlying demand follows a complex stochastic process, pricing problems are difficult to solve. In such cases, certainty equivalent (CE) policies, based on the solution to the deterministic relaxation of the stochastic pricing problem, can be used as practical alternatives. CE policies have lighter computational and informational requirements compared with solving the problem to optimality. Although the effectiveness of CE pricing policies has been theoretically studied when demands are independent, performance is not well known when demands are state-dependent and price-changing opportunities are limited. This paper analyzes the performance of CE policies in a pricing problem where future demand depends on sales and inventory, and the firm has limited opportunities to change prices. We show that CE policies are asymptotically optimal; as the problem scale (denoted by m) becomes large, the percentage revenue loss decreases at the rate of ??(1/?
PB  - INFORMS
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2022.0330
JF  - Mathematics of Operations Research
A1  - Ahn, Hyun-Soo
A1  - Ryan, Christopher
A1  - Uichanco, Joline
A1  - Zhang, Mengzhenyu
ER  -