Hiring and Leasing with Nonlinear Prices
研究垄断者在消费者随机到达并自选租期时，如何制定最优非线性定价方案，发现定价主要取决于顾客到达分布，且价格水平高于非均匀定价解。
This paper examines the problem of a monopolist setting an optimal nonlinear pricing schedule in the face of consumers of unknown type who arrive randomly over time and self-select a choice of hire period. The major determinant of pricing policy is the customer arrival distribution, with the overall level of price higher than in the atemporal yield management/nonuniform pricing solution by a margin which increases with the average frequency with which potential customers arrive. By contrast, the solution is generally fairly insensitive to variations in the time rate of discount, although there is a tendency for the rate of price discount to increase with increases in the time discount rate.