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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Opaque Selling"”.
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Essays in Economic Epidemiology and Industrial Organisation
… organisation. Both of these chapters analyse opaque selling, which is when a firm sells their products through a lottery mechanism that randomly rewards consumers with a product that is revealed after purchase. Chapter 1, Epidemics in Space: Control, Targeting and Delegation, is joint work …
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New approaches for integrating revenue and supply chain management
… mechanism design. Second, we study the use of opaque products in a retail setting. A product is said to be opaque when one or more of its attributes are hidden until the transaction is complete. Opaque products have been used in the hotel and airline industry where customers purchase rooms or …
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Flexibility in Platform Operations
… 4 investigates how platforms can leverage an "opaque selling" strategy to dynamically time these discounts to influence purchase behavior and balance inventory. We propose a class of dynamic inventory-balancing algorithms that adapt opaque selling to real-time inventory states, achieving …