A capacity reservation game for suppliers with multiple blocks of capacity |
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Affiliation: | Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
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Abstract: | This paper studies a supplier competition model in which a buyer reserves capacity from a number of suppliers that each have multiple blocks of capacity (e.g., production or power plants). The suppliers each submit a bid that specifies a reservation price and an execution price for every block, and the buyer determines what blocks to reserve. This game involves both external competition between suppliers and internal competition between blocks from each supplier. We characterize the properties of pure-strategy Nash equilibria for the game. Such equilibria may not always exist, and we provide the conditions under which they do. |
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Keywords: | Capacity reservation Multiplant firms Supplier competition Nash equilibrium |
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