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ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022To pool or not to pool: Equilibrium, pricing and regulation
We study a transportation network company (TNC) that offers on-demand solo and pooling e-hail services in an aggregate mobility service market, while competing with transit for passengers. The market equilibrium is established based on a spatial driver–pas ...
2021Price-based regulation of oligopolistic markets under discrete choice models of demand
Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Stefano Bortolomiol
We propose a framework to find optimal price-based policies to regulate markets characterized by oligopolistic competition and in which consumers make a discrete choice among a finite set of alternatives. With this framework, we can include general discret ...
EPFL2021Price-based regulation of oligopolistic markets under discrete choice models of demand
Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Stefano Bortolomiol
We propose a framework to find optimal price-based policies to regulate markets characterized by oligopolistic competition and in which consumers make a discrete choice among a finite set of alternatives. The framework accommodates general discrete choice ...
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