Revenue management games: Horizontal and vertical competition

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 813-831

  Netessine, Serguei ^a   Shumsky, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airlines; Competition; Nash equilibrium; Revenue management; Yield management

Indexed keywords

NASH EQUILIBRIUM; REVENUE; VERTICAL COMPETITION; YIELD MANAGEMENT;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; CODES (STANDARDS); DECISION MAKING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPETITION;

EID: 20944445916     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0356     Document Type: Article

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