Arbeitspapier
A Theory of Continuous Uncertainty Types
This paper distinguishes uncertainty types that differ continuously with respect to the degree to which uncertainty affects the optimal price/price markup or optimal quantity. A monopoly example is used to show that seemingly strong assumptions on functional forms can represent a wide variety of different scenarios, while (implicit) assumptions on continuous uncertainty types can lead to quite special results. Monopoly examples of the newsboy problem type are further used to show that the optimal capacity level and the optimal composition of capacity in terms of the number and size of production units depends crucially on the type of uncertainty and the employed functional forms for utilities and costs.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 15-065/VIII
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Monopoly
Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General
Transportation: General
- Thema
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Continuous uncertainty types
demand uncertainty
cost uncertainty
monopoly
newsboy problem
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Czerny, Achim I.
Verhoef, Erik T.
Zhang, Anming
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Czerny, Achim I.
- Verhoef, Erik T.
- Zhang, Anming
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2015