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Mature or emerging markets: Competitive duopoly investment decisions

Zschocke, Mark S.; Mantin, Benny; Jewkes, Elizabeth M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 3, pp. 612-622

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’...

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Characterization of the Reverse Talmud bankruptcy rule by Exemption and Exclusion properties

van den Brink, René; Funaki, Yukihiko; van der Laan, Gerard - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 2, pp. 413-417

The Reverse Talmud rule for bankruptcy problems applies the Constrained Equal Awards rule (CEA rule) for ‘large’ amounts of the estate, while it applies the Constrained Equal Losses rule (CEL rule) for ‘small’ amounts of the estate. The CEA rule, respectively CEL rule, can be axiomatized...

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The strategic interaction between the government and international oil companies in the UK: An example of a country with dwindling hydrocarbon reserves

Willigers, Bart J.A.; Hausken, Kjell - In: Energy Policy 57 (2013) C, pp. 276-286

The 2011 UK tax rise on hydrocarbon exploitation activities obviously increases short term tax revenues however the longer term effects are less clear. The strategic interaction between the UK government, a producer and a shipper has been analyzed in a game theoretical model. A complex...

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Analyzing competition of international air cargo carriers in the Asian general air cargo markets

Shiao, Guo-Chou; Hwang, Cherng-Chwan - In: Transport Policy 27 (2013) C, pp. 164-170

This paper presents a model structure to analyze the competitive strategies available to air cargo carriers in the Asian markets, in which all-cargo airlines and combination airlines offer service. Through a two-stage, Nash best-response game, equilibria in the air transportation industry are...

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After-sales service competition in a supply chain: Does uncertainty affect the conflict between profit maximization and customer satisfaction?

Kurata, Hisashi; Nam, Seong-Hyun - In: International Journal of Production Economics 144 (2013) 1, pp. 268-280

After-sales services are a key strategic tool in the durable consumer product market. They allow a manufacturer and a retailer to capture more sales and profit. Less obvious, however, is how the uncertainty of the customer's needs for after-sales services influences after-sales service...

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Linking action situations: Coordination, conflicts, and evolution in electricity provision for irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kimmich, Christian - In: Ecological Economics 90 (2013) C, pp. 150-158

Actor-centred institutional analysis can gain through an expanded focus from a focal action situation to the adjacent situations that make up its structure. Equilibrium outcomes in game models of a focal action situation may not be explainable without considering linked games. The concepts of an...

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Pricing and effort investment for a newsvendor-type product

Wang, Yao-Yu; Wang, Jian-Cai; Shou, Biying - In: European Journal of Operational Research 229 (2013) 2, pp. 422-432

We investigate a dominant retailer’s optimal joint strategy of pricing and timing of effort investment and analyze how it influences the decision of the manufacturer, the total supply chain profit, and the consumers’ payoff. We consider two pricing schemes of the retailer, namely, dollar...

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New product introduction and capacity investment by incumbents: Effects of size on strategy

Dawid, Herbert; Kopel, Michael; Kort, Peter M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 230 (2013) 1, pp. 133-142

We analyze a duopoly where capacity-constrained firms offer an established product and have the option to offer an additional new and differentiated product. We show that the firm with the smaller capacity on the established market has a higher incentive to innovate and reaches a larger market...

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Two-player simultaneous location game: Preferential rights and overbidding

Godinho, Pedro; Dias, Joana - In: European Journal of Operational Research 229 (2013) 3, pp. 663-672

Competitive location problems can be characterized by the fact that the decisions made by others will affect our own payoffs. In this paper, we address a discrete competitive location game in which two decision-makers have to decide simultaneously where to locate their services without knowing...

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Modelling "Horizontal" Interaction of Economic Agents with the Help of a Collection of Games

Sokolovskyi Dmytro B. - In: Business Inform (2013) 9, pp. 90-94

economic subjects, each of which can stick to a contract concluded between them, avoid its execution and control contract … execution by its opposite. The article establishes that the sales contract could be determined by a collection of games used for … modelling employment contract through decomposition of the game for describing of interaction of the general type. It specifies …

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