We empirically test the hypothesis that the discounts offered by firms to consumers who purchase tickets in advance increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer...

Over the last decades, dynamic pricing has become increasingly popular. To solve pricing problems, however, is particularly challenging if the customers' and competitors' behavior are both strategic and unknown. Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods are promising for solving such dynamic problems...