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Analysis of a simple capacity game
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Analysis of a simple capacity game

Abstract

Abstract We study a two‐player two‐fare‐class static single‐period capacity allocation game with complete information. Nonnested (partitioned) booking limit policies are investigated in both noncooperative and cooperative situations. We show the existence of unique Nash equilibrium in the noncooperative situation. In the cooperative game, we analyze the cost saving of the two players and investigate the concavity of the objective function. For both noncooperative and cooperative settings, we assume the demands to be a truncated normal distribution and provide a comprehensive sensitivity analysis to discover the effects of unit revenue, rejection cost, and transfer rate on the equilibrium solution. Our numerical experiments show that the nonnested model can be a good approximation to the nested booking limit model. For the cooperative setting, we identify conditions that give rise to improvements in the total system revenue. Finally, under each game‐theoretic setting, we present the managerial implications of our solutions along with numerical examples.

Authors

Song J; Parlar M

Journal

International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 435–461

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

May 1, 2012

DOI

10.1111/j.1475-3995.2011.00835.x

ISSN

0969-6016

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