Catalog sales are among the fastest growing businesses in the U.S. The most important asset a company in this industry has is its list of customers, called the house list. Building a house list is expensive, since the response rate of names from rental lists is low. Cash management therefore...

In this paper a dynamic and stochastic model of the well-known knapsack problem is developed and analyzed. The problem is motivated by a wide variety of real-world applications. Objects of random weight and reward arrive according to a stochastic process in time. The weights and rewards...

This textbook provides all tools required to easily solve intertemporal optimization problems in economics, finance, business administration and related disciplines. The focus of this textbook is on 'learning through examples' and gives a very quick access to all methods required by an...

Real option theory has for some decades been used in forest economics to analyse decision problems which involve irreversible and stochastic decisions. One such decision is when to harvest a stand and with what species to regenerate. The latter decision can be postponed for some time, making a...

Microeconomic Foundations I develops the choice, price, and general equilibrium theory topics typically found in first-year theory sequences, but in deeper and more complete mathematical form than most standard texts provide. The objective is to take the reader from acquaintance with these...

The demand for dairy products shifted during the past decade to items with less fat. This, along with a dairy surplus, has led to a generic advertising campaign by the industry. Consumers have responded by increasing dairy product purchases, while changes in the provisions of the dairy support...