Viability of auction-based revenue management in sequential markets

Viability of auction-based revenue management in sequential markets

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Article ID: iaor2006281
Country: United States
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 259
End Page Number: 286
Publication Date: May 2005
Journal: Decision Sciences
Authors: ,
Keywords: bidding, e-commerce
Abstract:

The Internet is providing an opportunity to revenue management practitioners to exploit the potential of auctions as a new price distribution channel. We develop a stochastic model for a high-level abstraction of a revenue management system (RMS) that allows us to understand the potential of incorporating auctions in revenue management in the presence of forecast errors associated with key parameters. Our abstraction is for an environment where two market segments book in sequence and revenue management approaches consider auctions in none, one, or both segments. Key insights from our robust results are (i) limited auctions are best employed closest to the final sale date, (ii) counterbalancing forecast errors associated with overall traffic intensity and the proportion of customer arrivals in a segment is more important if an auction is adopted in that segment, and (iii) it is critically important not to err on the side of overestimating market willingness to pay.

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