Cooperative game analysis of retail space-exchange problems

Cooperative game analysis of retail space-exchange problems

We analyze retail space-exchange problems where two or more retailers exchange their excess retail spaces to improve the utilization of their space resource. We first investigate the tworetailer space exchange problem. In order to entice both retailers with different bargaining powers to exchange their spaces, we use the generalized Nash bargaining scheme to allocate the total profit surplus be...

Non-cooperative game theoretic approaches to bilateral exchange networks

The Retail Space-Exchange Problem with Pricing and Space Allocation Decisions1

We consider retail space-exchange problems where two retailers exchange shelf space to increase accessibility to more of their consumers in more locations without opening new stores. Using the Hotelling model, we find two retailers’optimal prices given their host and guest space in two stores under the space-exchange strategy. Next, using the optimal space-dependent prices, we analyze a non-coo...

Retail competition and cooperative advertising

We consider a cooperative advertising channel consisting of a manufacturer selling its product through a retailer in competition with another independent retailer. The manufacturer subsidizes its retailer’s advertising only when a certain threshold is positive. Moreover, the manufacturer’s support for its retailer is higher under competition than in its absence.

Cooperative Game Theoretic Solution Concepts for top-$k$ Problems

The problem of finding the k most critical nodes, referred to as the top-k problem, is a very important one in several contexts such as information diffusion and preference aggregation in social networks, clustering of data points, etc. It has been observed in the literature that the value allotted to a node by most of the popular cooperative game theoretic solution concepts, acts as a good mea...