Advance selling of new products to strategic consumers on flash sale platformsFootnote^*

* This paper is an extended and enhanced version of our conference paper: Zhang, M. 2016 July. New products advance selling considering strategic customers. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences, 1–4.

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