Product and price competition with satiation effects

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1357-1373

  Caro, Felipe ^a   Martínez De albéniz, Victor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming: deterministic, discrete time; Marketing: product policy; Utility preference

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION LEVELS; DISCRETE TIME; MARKET SHARE; PRICE COMPETITION; PRODUCT POLICY; STEADY STATE; TIME INTERVAL; UTILITY PREFERENCE; UTILITY THEORY;

COSTS; INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84864063118     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1489     Document Type: Article

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