| Article ID: | iaor198870 |
| Country: | France |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 153 |
| End Page Number: | 174 |
| Publication Date: | May 1987 |
| Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
| Authors: | Page D. |
We study a firm where customers move from a buying class to another according to fixed transition probabilities. The customer return for a given class is a random variable. On a period