I am a full-time consultant and provide services related to the design, implementation and deployment of mathematical programming, optimization and data-science applications. I also teach courses and workshops. Usually I cannot blog about projects I am doing, but there are many technical notes I'd like to share. Not in the least so I have an easy way to search and find them again myself. You can reach me at erwin@amsterdamoptimization.com.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Oligopolistic producer behavior or why airline tickets are not cheaper
Small example from the literature:
Note: John Nash just won the Abel prize (http://www.nature.com/news/beautiful-mind-john-nash-adds-abel-prize-to-his-nobel-1.17179).
We implement different behaviors with a GAMS model:
Here q(i) is quantity supplied by firm i. We see most profit is to be made by merging firms and reducing capacity, just as happened in the US airline industry (Europe is a very different story). See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/business/dealbook/as-oil-prices-fall-air-fares-still-stay-high.html.
Another small example from energy markets: https://yetanothermathprogrammingconsultant.blogspot.com/2013/07/microeconomic-principles.html
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