A Nonatomic‐Game Approach to Dynamic Pricing under Competition

We study a revenue management problem involving competing firms. We assume the presence of a continuum of infinitesimal firms where no individual firm has any discernable influence over the evolution of the overall market condition. Under this nonatomic‐game approach, the unanimous adoption of an equilibrium pricing policy by all firms will yield a market‐condition process that in turn will elicit the said policy as one of the best individual responses. For both deterministic‐ and stochastic‐demand cases, we show the existence of equilibrium pricing policies that exhibit well‐behaving monotone trends. Our computational study reveals many useful insights, including the fact that only a reasonable number of firms are needed for our approach to produce near‐rational pricing policies.

• 저널Production and Operations Management · 22(1) · 88–103
• 토픽Economic theories and models · Economics and Econometrics
• DOI10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01334.x
• 저자Jian Yang, Yusen Xia