Competition under time-varying demands and dynamic lot sizing costs

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-73

  Federgruen, Awi ^a   Meissner, Joern ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive pricing; Fixed and variable procurement costs; Oligopoly models; Time varying demand and cost functions

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE PRICING; DYNAMIC LOT SIZINGS; EQUILIBRIUM PRICES; FIXED AND VARIABLE PROCUREMENT COSTS; OLIGOPOLY MODELS; OPTIMAL DYNAMICS; PLANNING HORIZONS; SCALE ECONOMIES; TIME VARYING DEMAND AND COST FUNCTIONS;

COMPETITION; COST FUNCTIONS; ECONOMICS; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

EID: 60349127277     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20321     Document Type: Article

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