Dynamic pricing with uncertain production cost: An alternating-move approach

Autor: Soheil Sibdari, David F. Pyke
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: European Journal of Operational Research. 236:218-228
ISSN: 0377-2217
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.10.070
Popis: This article studies a two-firm dynamic pricing model with random production costs. The firms produce the same perishable products over an infinite time horizon when production (or operation) costs are random. In each period, each firm determines its price and production levels based on its current production cost and its opponent’s previous price level. We use an alternating-move game to model this problem and show that there exists a unique subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in production and pricing decisions. We provide a closed-form solution for the firm’s pricing policy. Finally, we study the game in the case of incomplete information, when both or one of the firms do not have access to the current prices charged by their opponents.
Databáze: OpenAIRE