Dynamic pricing competition with strategic customers under vertical product differentiation

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-101

  Liu, Qian ^a   Zhang, Dan ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; Pricing competition; Strategic customers; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS; DIFFERENTIATED PRODUCTS; DYNAMIC PRICING; HIGH QUALITY; LOW QUALITIES; MARKOV PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM; STRATEGIC CUSTOMER BEHAVIORS; STRATEGIC CUSTOMERS; VERTICAL DIFFERENTIATION; VERTICAL PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION;

COMPETITION; COSTS; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84874146914     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1564     Document Type: Article

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