Many firms do not just sell products or services but solutions, integrated combinations of products and services. We analyze the competition between two solution providers (SPs) who sell to taste-heterogeneous customers. We model taste heterogeneity by having three types of customers. Type 1...

We study markdown timing decisions for perishable products in the presence of competition. We model as a duopoly two firms selling their fixed stocks of two substitutable items in a given selling horizon. Each firm starts with a common initial price, and has the option to decrease the price once...

This paper develops an empirical model of online airfare determinants to inspect the impact of the entry of a low-cost carrier (LCC). In particular, we investigate whether the increased competition from a recently established LCC induces major carriers to respond in two competitive dimensions:...