Investment and market structure in industries with congestion

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1303-1317

  Johari, Ramesh ^a   Weintraub, Gabriel Y ^b   Van Roy, Benjamin ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING SERVICES; CONGESTION MODELS; INVESTMENT INCENTIVES; LOSS MODEL; MARKET STRUCTURES; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; SERVICE INDUSTRIES; THEORETICAL RESULT;

COMPETITION; INVESTMENTS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 77954606390     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1100.0827     Document Type: Article

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