Advance selling in the presence of speculators and forward-looking consumers

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 571-587

  Lim, Wei Shi ^a   Tang, Christoper S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

advance selling; capacity constraint; forward looking consumers; speculators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877829820     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01421.x     Document Type: Article

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