| Article ID: | iaor20072689 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 35 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 83 |
| End Page Number: | 94 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Serin Yasemin |
| Keywords: | game theory |
Consider two newsvendors: (i) they compete satisfying substitutable demands searching Nash equilibrium or (ii) one is the leader deciding first, the other responds optimally playing a Stackelberg game. The leader profits more than she does in (i). We present conditions under which the leader's profit does not improve from (i) to (ii).