Time-based competition with benchmark effects

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-132

  Yang, Liu ^a   De Véricourt, Francis ^b   Sun, Peng ^c  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b INSEAD   (France)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark effect; Game theory; Loss aversion; Queues; Waiting time competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893914895     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2013.0462     Document Type: Article

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