3 papers
econ.TH2025
Strategic Pricing and Ranking in Recommendation Systems with Seller Competition
Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha, Jayakrishnan Nair +1
We study a recommendation system where sellers compete for visibility by strategically offering commissions to a platform that optimally curates a ranked menu of items and their re…
econ.TH2024
Partition-form Cooperative Games in Two-Echelon Supply Chains
Gurkirat Wadhwa, Tushar Shankar Walunj, Veeraruna Kavitha
Competition and cooperation are inherent features of any multi-echelon supply chain. The interactions among the agents across the same echelon and that across various echelons infl…
math.OC2022
Pricing, competition and market segmentation in ride hailing
Tushar Shankar Walunj, Shiksha Singhal, Veeraruna Kavitha +1
We analyse a non-cooperative strategic game among two ride-hailing platforms, each of which is modeled as a two-sided queueing system, where drivers (with a certain patience level)…