Asymmetric Pricing and Replenishment Controls for Substitutable Products

We study settings in which a firm offering substitutable products may face restrictions in its ability to either replenish or adjust the prices of some of its products, resulting in asymmetries in the pricing and replenishment controls available for each product. Specifically, we first consider a firm selling two substitutable products, a seasonal and a regular product, which differ in how their inventories are managed over a finite selling...