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Pricing Analytics

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One of the most important decisions a firm has to take is the pricing of its products.

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    Although there could be, but let us not complicate unnecessarily.

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    https://nyti.ms/2tybWiV, https://nyti.ms/2uwkLXR. Accessed on May 21, 2018.

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    As we mentioned earlier, it is common to group different products under one “class” and take an average price for the class. In the airline industry, for instance, the products, each with a fare basis code (such as BXP21), are grouped into fare classes (represented by an alphabet, Y, B, etc.)

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    http://www.informs.org/Community/revenue-mgt. Accessed on May 22, 2018.

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    http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rpm/index.html. Accessed on May 22, 2018.

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Talluri, K., Seshadri, S. (2019). Pricing Analytics. In: Pochiraju, B., Seshadri, S. (eds) Essentials of Business Analytics. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68837-4_23

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