Intense competition, fast changing technology, increased and diverse customer demand, and fast and reliable services and goods delivery expectations have reduced the profit margins for products. To be able to obtain a sustainable economic success, companies search for ways to offer the existing products via innovative ways. Revenue management is a tool that helps firms in this purpose. On the other hand, to match and even exceed customer anticipations, firms need to understand customer preferences and offer products accordingly. Customers can now reach wide range of competitor products due to online services. Hence it became much more important to apprehend and integrate customer choices into decision support tools. At this point, choice models are used to mathematically understand the customer choice preferences among a set of presented alternatives. This book combines revenue management and choice models to present a methodology to understand customer choices and integrate these to revenue management methods to be able to offer the best set of products to the customers. Also real life applications for hotels have been presented for different methods that are discussed and also proposed in this book with respective algorithms. When combined with decision support tools, concepts presented in this book offers a significant revenue increase for companies.

During the 19th century, British diplomacy towards the Ottoman Empire was based on rejuvenating and revitalising the administration system with a series of social and political reforms. Although British attitudes began to transform during the Near Eastern Crisis of 1876-8 and the Anglo-Ottoman alliance was interrupted, the policy changed dramatically on the eve of the First World War.Nonetheless, major events such as the Chanak Crisis in the British Cabinet, the occupation of Constantinople and Smyrna and finally the Turkish Nationalist Movementunder the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk effected the dynamics of Anglo-Ottoman relations. This book examines the ground of these policies and analyses how thisstorm was over in British foreign policies towards Turkey between 1918 and 1923.

Küreselleşme ve sanayileşme olgusu ile artan iktisadi faaliyetlerin olumlu etkilerinin yanı sıra ortaya koymuş olduğu negatif dışsallıklar dikkatleri insan ve ekonomi açısından oldukça önemli olan çevre konusuna çekmiştir. Çevre ekonomisinin iktisadi düşünceler tarihindeki yerinin incelenmesi çevre konusuna verilen önemin yüzyıllarca süregeldiğini ancak son yıllarda üzerinde oldukça tartışılması gereken bir konu haline dönüştüğünü göstermektedir. Bu noktada kitabımızda çevre ekonomisinin geçmişini inceleyerek geleceğe ışık tutması açısından çevre sorunlarından kaynaklı dışsal maliyetlere uygulanan vergiler ve etkinliği üzerinde durulmuş, çevre ve sürdürülebilir kalkınma ilişkisi çeşitli göstergeler ve indekslerle açıklanmış, ekonomik büyüme ve dışa açıklığın çevre kirliliği üzerindeki etkileri ile ekonomik büyüme ve çevre vergilerinin çevre kirliliğine olan etkisi Kyoto Protokolünün de göz önünde bulundurulduğu çeşitli ampirik modellerle analiz edilmiştir.