Overconfident competing newsvendors

Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 2637-2646

  Li, Meng ^a   Petruzzi, Nicholas C ^b   Zhang, Jun ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competitive newsvendors; Decision analysis; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; PROFITABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE BIAS; DECISION MAKERS; EXPECTED PROFITS; NEWSVENDORS; OVERCONFIDENCE; PROFIT MARGIN; UNCERTAIN EVENTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85027321739     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2016.2469     Document Type: Article

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