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Revenue Management: A Real Options Approach

Author
Anderson, Chris K.; Davison, M.; Rasmussen, H.
Abstract
Revenue management is the process of actively managing inventory or capacity to maximize revenues. The active management typically occurs through managerial levers such as price, promotion, or availability. We present a novel real options approach to revenue management that is specifically suited to the car rental business. We illustrate the concept with actual car rental data. The model produces minimally acceptable prices and inventory release quantities (number of cars available for rent at a given price) as a function of remaining time and available inventory. The pricing and inventory release recommendations of the developed model confirm earlier empirical analysis that suggested current practices discount too deeply early in the booking cycle.
Date Issued
2004-08-01Subject
operations management; securities and real options; car rentals; airlines
Related DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.20026Rights
Required Publisher Statement: © Wiley. Final version published as: Anderson, C. K., Davison, M., & Rasmussen, H. (2004). Revenue management: A real options approach. Naval Research Logistics, 51(5), 686-703.
Type
article