The curse of the first-in-first-out queue discipline

Trine Platz and Lars Peter Østerdal

No 10/2012, Discussion Papers on Economics from University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics

Abstract: We consider a congested facility where agents can line up at any time they wish after the facility opens (like airplane boarding, or drivers leaving stadium parking lots after a sports event). We show that in Nash equilibrium, within the general family of stochastic queue disciplines with no capacity waste, the focal first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue discipline is the worst while the last-in-first-out (LIFO) discipline is best.

Keywords: Bottleneck; queue discipline; Nash equilibrium; FIFO; LIFO; welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 D62 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2012-05-23
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