Regret in the Newsvendor Model with Partial Information

Georgia Perakis
Georgia Perakis
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Guillaume Roels
Guillaume Roels
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Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Guillaume Roels

Guillaume Roels

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Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095

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Published Online:1 Feb 2008https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1070.0486

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Received:November 01, 2005
Accepted:August 01, 2007
Published Online:February 01, 2008

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Georgia Perakis, Guillaume Roels, (2008) Regret in the Newsvendor Model with Partial Information. Operations Research 56(1):188-203.

https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1070.0486

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