Many traditional retailers and e-tailers like Walmart and Amazon have been implementing omnichannel strategies, such as buy-online pickup-at-store (BOPS), buy-online ship-to-store (BOSS), and buy-online ship-from-store (BOFS). We build a stylized model to investigate the impacts of these...

Does the social comparison still intensify the competition among sellers in volatile markets? In this paper, we study the price competition in markets with volatile sizes and, importantly, with sellers that socially compare their profits with each other ex post for any realization of market...

We study a joint assortment and inventory optimization problem faced by an online retailer who needs to decide on both the assortment along with the inventories of a set of N substitutable products before the start of the selling season to maximize the expected profit. The problem raises both...