similar to surge pricing strategies adopted by rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft, airlines and hotels. “During the busy times, they can obviously increase profits then,” Brown said.

Wendy's is expected to roll out a dynamic pricing model similar to Uber's surge-pricing as soon as ... However, associate professor of economics at George Washington University Steven Suranovic ...

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“Whoever called it surge pricing made the worst marketing mistake you can think of,” said Juan Castillo, assistant professor of economics at ... at companies like Uber and Lyft.

If the rise of the fee broke the expectation that prices are transparent, dynamic pricing challenged the assumption that they’re fixed. When Uber rolled out surge pricing in the 2010s ...

Uber and Lyft passengers are used to getting hit with surge pricing during busy times of ... associate professor of economics at George Washington University, told the Daily Mail.

The culprit is surge pricing, one of ridehail’s most important and controversial innovations. Customers grumble about higher fares, but Uber and Lyft executives have insisted that surge pricing ...

By Jeanna Smialek A Federal Reserve official compared inflation to Uber surge pricing on Wednesday in ... She previously covered economics at Bloomberg News.

In other words, in the 2016 interview, Chen said Uber did indeed have access to battery charge information but was not using it to increase surge pricing. Instead, he suggested users were more ...