We study markdown timing decisions for perishable products in the presence of competition. We model as a duopoly two firms selling their fixed stocks of two substitutable items in a given selling horizon. Each firm starts with a common initial price, and has the option to decrease the price once...

We study the assortment optimization problem in an online setting where a retailer uses multiple distribution centers to fulfill customer orders. Due to space, handling or other constraints, each distribution center can carry up to a pre-specified number of products. It is assumed that each...

We consider jointly replenishing n ex--ante identical firms that operate under an EOQ like setting using a non-cooperative game under asymmetric information. In this game, each firm, upon being privately informed about its demand rate (or inventory cost rate), submits a private contribution to...