SNAPP Seminar || Arnoud den Boer (University of Amsterdam) || April 13, 2026

Speaker: Arnoud den Boer (University of Amsterdam) || April 13, 2026 Title: How long does it take to sell your products? Abstract: A price-setting seller offers q units of inventory over a finite selling horizon of length T. Prices are set either according to the optimal static policy, or the optimal dynamic policy (a la Gallego and Van Ryzin, 1994). As T grows large, what is the distribution of the time it takes to sell k items? Is static pricing systematically slower or faster than dynamic pricing? And how does this all depend on characteristics of the willingness-to-pay distribution? In this joint work with Tarek Abdallah of Northwestern Univ., we address these questions. Speaker's Bio: Arnoud den Boer is associate professor at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on various aspects of pricing and assortment optimization problems, such as demand learning, waste reduction, and collusion. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/arnoud-...