Dynamic Allocation and Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach

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Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)

Dynamic Allocation and Pricing

A Mechanism Design Approach

Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)

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MIT Press
25 June 2024

Corporate finance

Series: Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures

A new approach to dynamic allocation and pricing that blends dynamic paradigms from the operations research and management science literature with classical mechanism design methods.

A new approach to dynamic allocation and pricing that blends dynamic paradigms from the operations research and management science literature with classical mechanism design methods.

Dynamic allocation and pricing problems occur in numerous frameworks, including the pricing of seasonal goods in retail, the allocation of a fixed inventory in a given period of time, and the assignment of personnel to incoming tasks. Although most of these problems deal with issues treated in the mechanism design literature, the modern revenue management (RM) literature focuses instead on analyzing properties of restricted classes of allocation and pricing schemes. In this book, Alex Gershkov and Benny Moldovanu propose an approach to optimal allocations and prices based on the theory of mechanism design, adapted to dynamic settings.

Drawing on their own recent work on the topic, the authors describe a modern theory of RM that blends the elegant dynamic models from the operations research (OR), management science, and computer science literatures with techniques from the classical mechanism design literature. Illustrating this blending of approaches, they start with well-known complete information, nonstrategic dynamic models that yield elegant explicit solutions. They then add strategic agents that are privately informed and then examine the consequences of these changes on the optimization problem of the designer. Their sequential modeling of both nonstrategic and strategic logic allows a clear picture of the delicate interplay between dynamic trade-offs and strategic incentives. Topics include the sequential assignment of heterogeneous objects, dynamic revenue optimization with heterogeneous objects, revenue maximization in the stochastic and dynamic knapsack model, the interaction between learning about demand and dynamic efficiency, and dynamic models with long-lived, strategic agents.

By: Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262552448
ISBN 10: 0262552442
Series: Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 25 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alex Gershkov is Associate Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Benny Moldovanu is Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn.