Perturbed Pricing

10/23/2020

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by   Neil Walton, et al.

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We propose a simple randomized rule for the optimization of prices in revenue management with contextual information. It is known that the certainty equivalent pricing rule, albeit popular, is sub-optimal. We show that, by allowing a small amount of randomization around these certainty equivalent prices, the benefits of optimal pricing and low regret are achievable.