Arrival timing game for future limited items and full capacity announcement

IF 0.8 4区管理学 Q4 OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Operations Research Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI:10.1016/j.orl.2025.107265

Bara Kim , Geofferey Jiyun Kim

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Abstract

We investigate the arrival timing problem, where customers compete to arrive earlier in order to secure one of a limited number of items that will be sold in the future. We derive the formulas for the unique Nash equilibrium in each scenario, with and without a full-capacity announcement. With the full-capacity announcement alone, it is possible to enhance both the expected social benefit and the expected profit under optimal pricing to reach the ideal level achievable by centralized coordination.

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Operations Research Letters 管理科学-运筹学与管理科学

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

9.10%

发文量

111

审稿时长

83 days

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