The extensive adoption of uniform pricing for branded variants is a puzzling phenomenon, considering that firms may improve profitability through price discrimination. In this paper, we incorporate consumers' concerns of peer-induced price fairness into a model of price competition and show that...

Over the past decade, an increasing number of firms have delegated pricing decisions to algorithms in consumer markets such as travel, entertainment, and retail; business markets such as digital advertising; and platform markets such as ride-sharing. This trend, driven primarily by the increased...

This paper examines how strategic customer behavior impacts e-tailers' inventory storage location, pricing and inventory level decisions. We build a stylized model where an e-tailer either has only a central warehouse, or add a local warehouse and thus has both warehouses for inventory storage....