The "Persuasion Game" was originally configured to analyze a firm’s choice of how much vertical product information it would wish to reveal. The equilibrium "unravels" so that a firm wants to reveal its true quality. We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising by first formulating it in the context of first exciting consumer interest into learning more a...

This paper aims to address supply chain partners' incentives for information sharing from an information systems design perspective. Specifically, we consider a supply chain characterized by N geographically distributed retailers who order a homogeneous product from one manufacturer. Each retailer's demand risk consists of two parts: a systematic risk part that affects all retailers and an idio...

This study proposes a novel option-revenue sharing coordination contract framework. In the proposed model, the retailer determines the number of order sales effort. The manufacturer sets the price of products for the wholesale strategy. The investigated supply chain problem analyzes the results of different strategies. In the proposed coordination contract problem, two types of games including ...

Market demand of the  perishable bakery  products are volatile. Hence, demand of such items are random variable. The most appealing demand distribution of such items is lognormal demand distribution. Using historical data, the parameters of lognormal distribution are obtained. But, there is a problem of overestimation or underestimation of the parameters. Fuzzy triangular numbers are used to ov...

in this paper, we analyze the effect of lack of capital investment on energy projects using game theory in the guise of cooperative games. we focus on the energy projects in the provincial level as case study during 2010-2011. therefore, we design a theoretical model of the lack of capital investment as a factor influencing the implement of energy projects. in the experimental section, we deter...

H should the excess profit because of inventory pooling be shared amongst firms at different levels along the supply chain? Suppose each of several retailers observes local demand for a common item and places an order at the supplier, which is immediately filled if the supplier has the item in stock. The supplier can fill retailer orders either from their reserved inventories or from a shareabl...

Considering the two-stage supply chain composed of a leading retailer and manufacturer under background covid-19 epidemic, determines anti-epidemic effort level bears corresponding costs, cost sharing rate coordination strategy. This paper analyzes pricing decision, different government subsidy measures strategies. From perspective Stackelberg game, we find that epidemic situation, subsidies ca...

Supply chain management has been described as an integration of business process that is associated with operational management and marketing problems, such as inventory control, information sharing and supply chain coordination. Over the last few decades, researchers in the area of supply chain management have been very active in seeking optimal policies for supply chain members in order for t...