We develop a model of separating equilibrium where a monopolist markets a physical product to two types of consumers in the online channel. We show how the seller may use personalization technology to limit or even eliminate the distortion caused by the cannibalization problem. This results in higher product quality levels and earlier product introductions for goods aimed at low type consumers....

Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and costs recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture changing unit economics intermittent dispatchable technologies. We apply this framework context California Texas wholesale markets. Our LPM estimates indicate that solar photovoltaic wind substa...

Detailed maintenance planning under uncertainty is one of the most important topics in military research and practice. As one of the fastest ways to recover failed weapon systems, cannibalization operations are commonly applied by maintenance personnel. Due to additional complexities introduced by these operations, detailed maintenance decision making with cannibalization was rarely studied in ...

Product cannibalization is a well known phenomenon in marketing and new product development and describes the case when one product steals sales from a product pertaining to the same brand. In this paper we present a new Lotka-Volterra model with asymmetric competition, which is useful to describe cases of product cannibalization. We apply the model to the case of Apple Inc, where iPhone sales ...