The literature on equilibrium behavior of customers and servers in queuing systems is rich.
However, there is no comprehensive survey of this field. Moreover, what has been published …

Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that" nobody
knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and …

Scale economies are commonplace in operations, yet because of analytical challenges,
relatively little is known about how firms should compete in their presence. This paper …

Audiences discover what films they like and spread the word. Information feedback
produces Bose-Einstein dynamics in the motion picture box office revenue distribution …

Many consider Foundations of Economic Method to be Lawrence Boland's best work. This
updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much appreciated by …

Queues are observed to emerge in two distinct settings in economic theory. On the one hand
they result as a byproduct of sto-chastic variation in one or both sides of markets where …

For several decades growth of traffic volumes has outstripped investments in road
infrastructure. The result has been a relentless increase in traffic congestion. Congestion …

Managers struggle to cope with complexity in their product portfolios. However, research into
diversification, product platforms, and other issues related to product portfolio complexity has …

The First Comprehensive Book on the SubjectFocusing on the underlying structure of a
system, Optimal Design of Queueing Systems explores how to set the parameters of a …

This paper studies alternative price-service mechanisms for a provider that serves
customers whose delay cost depends on their service valuations. We propose a generalized …