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2010
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Re-solving stochastic programming models for airline revenue management
We study some mathematical programming formulations for the origin-destination model in airline revenue management. In particular, we focus on the traditional probabilistic model ...
Lijian Chen, Tito Homem-de-Mello
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2010
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Lipschitz and differentiability properties of quasi-concave and singular normal distribution functions
Abstract The paper provides a condition for differentiability as well as an equivalent criterion for Lipschitz continuity of singular normal distributions. Such distributions are o...
René Henrion, Werner Römisch
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2010
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Convex approximations for a class of mixed-integer recourse models
We consider mixed-integer recourse (MIR) models with a single recourse constraint. We relate the second-stage value function of such problems to the expected simple integer recour...
Maarten H. van der Vlerk
ANOR
2010
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Robust portfolios: contributions from operations research and finance
Abstract In this paper we provide a survey of recent contributions to robust portfolio strategies from operations research and finance to the theory of portfolio selection. Our sur...
Frank J. Fabozzi, Dashan Huang, Guofu Zhou
ANOR
2010
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Stochastic models for risk estimation in volatile markets: a survey
Abstract The problem of portfolio risk estimation in volatile markets requires employing fat-tailed models for financial instrument returns combined with copula functions to captur...
Stoyan V. Stoyanov, Borjana Racheva-Iotova, Svetlo...
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2010
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Valuing the switching flexibility of the ethanol-gas flex fuel car
Carlos Bastian-Pinto, Luiz E. Brandão, Mari...
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2010
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A new methodology for studying the equity premium
This paper provides a new framework for the derivation and estimation of consumption and the equity premium functions. The novelty in our approach is that it does not require the ...
Elie Appelbaum, Parantap Basu
ANOR
2010
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Run lengths and liquidity
Sanjiv R. Das, Paul Hanouna
ANOR
2010
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Representing risk preferences in expected utility based decision models
: The application and estimation of expected utility based decision models would benefit from having additional simple and flexible functional forms to represent risk preferences. ...
Jack Meyer
ANOR
2010
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Inventory management with partially observed nonstationary demand
Abstract. We consider a continuous-time model for inventory management with Markov modulated non-stationary demands. We introduce active learning by assuming that the state of the ...
Erhan Bayraktar, Michael Ludkovski