Business Analytics in Action: The Case of Asset Pricing for a Rent-a-Car Company

The Internet enables businesses to acquire a great deal of reference information, including the price in the open markets, for estimating appropriate prices of the assets to sell off. In particular, what is the value of reference price information to a company in the market and how can the company make use of this information? Using a multiple regression model for price estimation applied to used cars for a rent-a-car company, we propose a framework to collect the reference price information, in order to estimate appropriate prices in the future. The result is a new information system that collects online reference price information and provides very accurate information in estimating future prices of used cars and rental prices.

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