Risk minimising strategies for revenue management problems with target values |
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Authors: | Matthias Koenig Joern Meissner |
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Institution: | 1.Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences,Germany;2.Kuehne Logistics University,Hamburg,Germany |
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Abstract: | Consider a risk-averse decision maker in the setting of a single-leg dynamic revenue management problem with revenue controlled by limiting capacity for a fixed set of prices. Instead of focussing on maximising the expected revenue, the decision maker has the main objective of minimising the risk of failing to achieve a given target revenue. Interpreting the revenue management problem in the framework of finite Markov decision processes, we augment the state space of the risk-neutral problem definition and change the objective function to the probability of failing a certain specified target revenue. This enables us to obtain a dynamic programming solution that generates the policy minimising the risk of not attaining this target revenue. We compare this solution with recently proposed risk-sensitive policies in a numerical study and discuss advantages and limitations. |
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