Price to compete... with many: How to identify price competition in high-dimensional space

Management Science

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 4118-4136

  Li, Jun ^a   Netessine, Serguei ^b   Koulayev, Sergei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Office of Financial Protection for Older Americans   (United States)

Author keywords

High dimensionality; Industries: hotel motel; Price competition; Simultaneity bias

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS;

COMPETITIVE MARKETS; CUSTOMER PREFERENCES; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; PRICE COMPETITION; SIMULTANEITY BIAS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 85048139729     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2820     Document Type: Article

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