Optimal Contract-Sizing in Online Display Advertising for Publishers with Regret Considerations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2014
Keywords
newsboy problem, operations management, risk
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2013.06.001
Abstract
In this paper, we study optimal contract problems for online display advertisements with pay-per-view pricing scheme. We first provide and analyze a single contract model, which is shown to be equivalent to the newsvendor problem. We then consider a stochastic optimization problem with two different advertisements and show that a contract to display both of them is not optimal. However, we show that a contract to display of both advertisements may be optimal when we consider the publisher's regret. We consider a chance constraint for the publisher's regret and provide numerical experiments that illustrate the change of optimal strategy for different probability levels.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Omega, v. 42, issue 1, p. 201-212
Scholar Commons Citation
Ahmed, Md. Tanveer and Kwon, Changhyun, "Optimal Contract-Sizing in Online Display Advertising for Publishers with Regret Considerations" (2014). Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 30.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/egs_facpub/30
