What is the relationship between inventory and sales? Clearly, inventory could increase sales: expanding inventory creates more choice (options, colors, etc.) and might signal a popular/desirable product. Or, inventory might encourage a consumer to continue her search (e.g., on the theory that...

Should a firm charge on a per-use basis or sell subscriptions when its service experiences congestion? Queueing-based models of pricing primarily focus on charging a fee per use for the service, in part because per-use pricing enables the firm to regulate congestion — raising the per-use price...

In many markets consumers incur search costs and firms must choose a pricing strategy that determines how their pricing responds to market conditions. A pricing strategy may involve commitments to take actions that are not optimal given the information the firm knowns about demand. Two types of...

Technologies that enable ``e-visits'' -- remote interactions between patients and physicians -- are touted as a way to improve and expand primary care. We study a setting in which a physician can divert some of the patient demand away from the office visits and into the e-visits, which utilize...