Title
Optimal Advertising and Pricing in a Dynamic Durable Goods Supply Chain.
Abstract
Cooperative advertising is an incentive offered by a manufacturer to influence retailers’ promotional decisions. We study a dynamic durable goods duopoly with a manufacturer and two independent and competing retailers. The manufacturer, as a Stackelberg leader, announces his wholesale prices and his shares of retailers’ advertising costs, and the retailers in response play a Nash differential game in choosing their optimal retail prices and advertising efforts over time. We obtain the feedback equilibrium policies for the manufacturer and the retailers in explicit form for a linear demand formulation. We investigate issues, like channel coordination and antidiscriminatory legislation, and also study a case, when the manufacturer sells through only one retailer and the second retailer sells a competing brand.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s10957-012-0034-5
J. Optimization Theory and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
durable goods
Duopoly,Channel coordination,Incentive,Advertising,Differential game,Durable good,Legislation,Supply chain,Stackelberg competition,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
154
2
1573-2878
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.87
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anshuman Chutani1212.93
Suresh Sethi21215255.98