In many practical settings, learning algorithms can take a substantial amount of time to converge, thereby raising the need to understand the role of discounting in learning. We illustrate the impact of discounting on the performance of learning algorithms by examining two classic and...

Capacity adjustment and dynamic pricing are long-term and short-term decisions respectively to match supply with demand. In an environment where the demand is unknown to the firm, it is worth investigating how to integrate the two decisions such that the firm can learn about the demand on the...