Congestion-Prone Services Under Quality Competition
Dong-Joo Moon
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Description for Congestion-Prone Services Under Quality Competition
Hardback. This volume develops a set of fresh decision-making protocols for consumers and suppliers alike that reflect two distinct features of congestion-prone services, namely the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. Series: Advances in Spatial Science. Num Pages: 444 pages, 3 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCD; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 824.
This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage. It accounts for two distinctive features of congestion-prone services: the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. To accommodate these features, a series of new decision-making theorems for consumers and suppliers is developed. The resulting demand and cost functions incorporate service time as the variable that reflects congestion and service quality. In market equilibrium, interactions between consumers and firms endogenously determine the industrial organization type of each firm and thus allow the coexistence of multiple industrial organization ... Read more
This study presents new microeconomic analyses of congestion-prone services that comprise most private and public services at the final consumption stage. It accounts for two distinctive features of congestion-prone services: the discrepancy between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. To accommodate these features, a series of new decision-making theorems for consumers and suppliers is developed. The resulting demand and cost functions incorporate service time as the variable that reflects congestion and service quality. In market equilibrium, interactions between consumers and firms endogenously determine the industrial organization type of each firm and thus allow the coexistence of multiple industrial organization ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Spatial Science
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642201882
SKU
V9783642201882
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Ref
99-15
About Dong-Joo Moon
Dong-Joo Moon, Research Follow, Institute for Environment Planning, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University. Awards of Honor: Hanguk Explosive Fellowship (Junior and Senior of undergraduate), General Mills Fellowship (3 years of Ph.D. program), Official commendation of the Prime Minister of the Korean Government for Research Project Development, Best Article of the Year 2007, Korean Society of Transportation.
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