Signaling quality via queues

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 876-891

  Debo, Laurens G ^a   Parlour, Christine ^b   Rajan, Uday ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth death; Games group decisions; Probability; Queues; Stochastic; Stochastic model applications

Indexed keywords

BIRTH-DEATH; GAMES-GROUP DECISIONS; QUEUES; STOCHASTIC; STOCHASTIC MODEL APPLICATIONS;

INDUSTRY; PROBABILITY;

QUEUEING THEORY;

EID: 84861395965     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1454     Document Type: Article

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