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A Forecasting Model for Hotel Occupancy Rates
Although in 1973 the average nationwide occupancy rate for hotels and motels was 61%, this rate fluctuates widely based on the time of year and the specific hotel or motel. The purpose of this paper is to present a short range forecasting…
A Framework for Analyzing the Ethics of Social Interventions
Investigators and practitioners of human behavior change must be more concerned with the ethical ramifications of their work. The recently changed HFM guidelines for the protection of human subjects highlight the necessity for the development…
Heuristic Scheduling and Priority Implementation Procedures for a Dynamic Job Shop Model
The problem considered is the scheduling of a job shop with job due dates, intermittent job arrivals, and statistical processing times. Centralized scheduling uses a sequence of static problems for generating priorities at review times. The…
Marketability Restrictions and Valuation of Capital Assets Under Uncertainty
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Markov Decision Problems II: Summarized Utility, Memorless Strategies, Stationarity
The analysis of Markov decision problems with expected utility criteria, initiated on Kreps (1975b), is continued. Analogues of the standard dynamic programming concepts of memoryless strategies and stationarity are provided. The key notion is…
Markov Decision Problems with Expected Utility Criteria, I: Basic Notions and Essentially Positive, Essentially Negative and Convergent Utility
A discrete time, finite state and action Markov decision problem is considered where the objective is the maximization of the expectation of an arbitrary utility function defined on the sequence of rewards. Basic concepts are formulated,…
Mergers in the Savings and Loan Industry, 1969-1974: Structural Changes and Financial Comparisons
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Monetary Rules and the Nominal Rate of Interest Under Uncertainty
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New Product Distribution: An Analysis of Supermarket Buyer Decisions*
This paper explores the relationship between eighteen variables descriptive of a new product offering and a supermarket buyer’s decision to accept or reject the product. The data base consists of one hundred twenty-four new products proposed to…
New Tools for Teaching Marketing: Computer and Model Assisted Cases
This paper summarizes the authors experiences in developing and applying computer based models for the analysis of marketing cases. The paper discusses the extent of use of such materials at Stanford, proposes methods of use, and outlines…
A Note on the Relation Between the Generalized GUB-Technique and Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition
Although the generalized GUBtechnique (GGUB) conceptually is very different from DantzigWolfe decomposition (DW), we show that these methods are very much alike computationally. Our purpose is to provide insight into the close relationship…
On Mean Variance Models of Capital Structure and the Absurdity of Their Predictions
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On Optimal Dividend and Liquidation Policies for the Firm, II: Optimality of LRHD Policies
The study of optimal dividend, reinvestment, and liquidation policies for a single asset firm is continued. By assuming roughly that the probability distribution of net asset changes is PF2, that its mode is not too low, and that the probability…
On the Decomposition of the Municipal Cash Management Problem Using an Interactive Approach
Decomposition of the municipal cash management problem into monthly and daily decisions is considered and conditions presented which guarantee that the decomposition is well defined. Under certain conditions, infeasibilities at the daily level…
On the Optimality of Structured Policies in Countable Stage Decision Processes
Multi-stage decision processes are considered, in notation which is an outgrowth of that introduced by Denardo [l0]. Certain Markov decision processes, stochastic games, and risk-sensitive Markov decision processes are formulated in this notation…
On the Optimality of Structured Policies in Countable Stage Decision Processes, II: Positive and Negative Problems
The analysis of structured countable stage decision processes, initiated in Porteus [10], is continued. The standard models of positive and negative dynamic programming are given in this context, thus extending these results to criteria other…
On the Optimality of Structured Policies in Countable Stage Decision Processes, III: Regular Terminal Value Functions
The study of structured countable stage decision processes is continued. Rather than requiring the terminal value functions to be what are called regular-structured [6], we only require them to be regular. Since the infinite horizon values are…
Optimal Initiation of Bankruptcy Proceedings by Debt Holders
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Optimal State-Dependent Pricing Policies for a Class of Stochastic Multi-Unit Rental Systems
This paper models a k-unit rental system with Poisson arrivals, exponential service times and no queue. Denoting the number of units that are out on rent as the state of the system, the state-dependent pricing model formalizes the intuitive…