Abstract
We consider Stackelberg pricing games between two servers with homogeneous customers. We find that a first-mover advantage holds when the demand is large and that a second-mover advantage exists when the demand is scarce.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 397-402 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Operations Research Letters |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 May 2013 |
Keywords
- First-mover advantage
- Price leadership
- Queueing
- Service competition
- Strategic customers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Science and Operations Research
- Applied Mathematics
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Software