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Matthias Koenig, Joern Meissner
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| Abstract |
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Consider a single-leg dynamic revenue management problem with fare classes controlled
by capacity in a risk-averse setting. The revenue management strategy aims at limiting
the down-side risk, and in particular, value-at-risk. A value-at-risk optimised policy
o ers an advantage when considering applications which do not allow for a large number
of reiterations. They allow for specifying a confidence level regarding undesired scenarios.
We introduce a computational method for determining policies which optimises the
value-at-risk for a given confidence level. This is achieved by computing dynamic programming
solutions for a set of target revenue values and combining the solutions in
order to attain the requested multi-stage risk-averse policy. We reduce the state space
used in the dynamic programming in order to provide a solution which is feasible and
has less computational requirements. Numerical examples and comparison with other
risk-sensitive approaches are discussed. |
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Capacity Control, Revenue Management, Risk, Value-at-Risk
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Working Paper |
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| Download |
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www.meiss.com/download/RM-Koenig-Meissner-04.pdf
(350 kb) |
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