The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...

The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...

We use data on the e-retail business of TMall to consider scalable forecasting and revenuemanagement (RM) for thousands of items. We use forecasts that depend on the novel concept of asymmetric formation of RPs. The related literature studies RPs empirically and theoretically but ignores...