A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a “leadership game” with the same payoffs, where one player, the leader, commits to a strategy, to which the second player always chooses a best reply. This paper studies such leadership games for games with convex strategy sets. We apply them to mixed extensions of finite games, which we analyze completely, includ...

In recent years, new retail has gradually started to catch people’s attention. During the current intensified competition in industry, it become an important competitive strategy for companies increase user stickiness by providing exclusive membership services and creating a distinctive paid system. Taking Sam's Club as example, strategies of membership-based stores were analyzed this paper fro...