In this paper, I examine duopoly with multi-services, where firms offer delivery prices and mill prices at the same time, and each consumer chooses one of them. In the equilibria, firms specialize in delivery services even if their transport costs are higher than consumers'. This result is...

Around the start of this new millennium, scholars in the operations management/operations research field started to make important contributions to the study of price competition models. In this tutorial, we review these contributions, and partition them into five broad areas. Most of the...

Existing literature on dealer liquidity provision and inventory management has focused on dealer inventory costs. I uncover a new inventory benefit channel: dealers strategically build inventory in order to compete for market share. I assess the relative impact of the inventory benefit and costs...