We develop a competitive investment model wherein two competing firms consider investing into two projects targeting, separately, a mature and an emerging market. The returns firms obtain from investments into these markets are assumed to follow an S-shaped curve and depend on both firms’...

We consider a production system in which a supplier produces semi-finished items on a make-to-stock basis for a manufacturer that will customize the items on a make-to-order basis. The proportion of total processing time undertaken by the supplier determines how suitable the semi-finished items...

Dynamic patterns of prices in different markets may motivate (strategic) consumers, who could be monitoring price movements over time, to game vendors. Do past price movements carry information about the probability and magnitude of future price drops? Conducting empirical work in the airline...