On modeling the advertising-operations interface under asymmetric competition

Evolutionary branching under asymmetric competition.

I investigate the evolution of a continuous trait, such as body size or arms level, which affects the outcome of competitive contests such that the contestant with the larger trait value has a higher probability of winning. I show that a polymorphism of distinctly different strategies can evolve in an initially monomorphic population even if mutations have only small phenotypic effect. In a sim...

Evolutionary Branching under Asymmetric Competition

I investigate the evolution of a continuous trait, such as body size or arms level, which affects the outcome of competitive contests such that the contestant with the larger trait value has a higher probability of winning. I show that a polymorphism of distinctly different strategies can evolve in an initially monomorphic population even if mutations have only small phenotypic effect. In a sim...

R&D subsidies under asymmetric Cournot competition

Robust Newsvendor Competition under Asymmetric Information

We generalize analysis of competition among newsvendors to a setting in which competitors possess asymmetric information about future demand realizations, and this information is limited to knowledge of the support of demand distribution. In such a setting, traditional expectation-based optimization criteria are not adequate and therefore we focus on the alternative criterion used in the robust...

Why Do We Observe Stockless Operations on the Internet? - Stockless Operations under Competition∗ Forthcoming in Production and Operations Management

Due to the proliferation of electronic commerce and the development of Internet technologies, many firms have considered new pricing-inventory models. In this paper, we study the role of stockless (i.e., zero-inventory) operations in online retailing by considering duopoly competition in which two retailers compete to maximize profit by jointly optimizing their pricing and inventory decisions. ...