Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between cognitive age and the adoption of defensive ageing consumption activities and its effect on life satisfaction in an Asian context. The relationship between the antecedent variables of chronological age, biological age and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on testing hypotheses derived from theories presented by leading scholars regarding possible sources of differences in reliability coefficients, using cross-sectional data from Japan and Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was...

We study the optimal pricing of a finite quantity of seasonal goods in the presence of forward-looking strategic customers. The arrival rate of customers is unknown, and we assume the retailer and customers have the same initial belief about the arrival rate based on the information from...

We consider a seller who sells a product over T discrete period in the season. The arrival rate of customers is known but the parameter of customer sensitivity to price is unknown. We assume that the seller has a prior belief in this parameter, which is updated using the Bayesian rule. The...