Monotonicity properties of wholesale price contracts

This paper contributes to the supply chain contracts literature in economics and operations by performing qualitative sensitivity analysis of a wholesale price contract in a two-echelon supply chain setting. Order-theory tools are used to derive sufficient conditions for monotonicity of contract parameters.The upstream supplier is modeled as a Stackelberg leader. The supplier is assumed to have complete information about the costs and revenue function of the downstream retailer. It is shown that an equilibrium wholesale price weakly increases with an increase in the supplier production cost rate, but it may increase or decrease with an increase in the retailer cost rate. As either the supplier production cost or the retailer cost increases, the supplier profit decreases weakly. Additional sensitivity analysis is performed assuming certain properties of the retailer revenue function.Several well-known results in the supply chain contracting literature can be considered as special cases of the more general theorems developed here. In particular, this paper reexamines the analysis of a newsvendor supply chain problem by Lariviere and Porteus [Lariviere, M.A., Porteus, E.L., 2001. Selling to the newsvendor: An analysis of price-only contracts. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3, 293–305]. This paper generalizes and extends their work, by establishing properties of the newsvendor demand distribution that guarantee monotonicity of the contract parameters, without requiring a unique contract solution.     

An oligopoly model of dynamic advertising competition

An oligopoly model is presented that allows the determination of feedback Nash equilibrium advertising strategies for an oligopoly. Analyses of symmetric and asymmetric oligopolies with the model show that unit contribution and advertising effectiveness have positive effects on a competitor’s own advertising and steady-state sales, while discount rate and decay rate have negative effects. An asymmetric analysis further shows that unit contribution and advertising effectiveness affect positively, and discount rate and decay rate negatively, a competitor’s rivals’ advertising, but have effects in opposite directions regarding rivals’ steady-state sales. The symmetric and asymmetric analyses also show that steady-state sales per competitor decline with the number of competitors in the oligopoly, while total oligopoly steady-state sales increase. The model is applied empirically to the triopolistic competition involving Anheuser-Busch, SABMiller, and Molson Coors in the beer industry.     

中短途汽车客运问题博弈分析

汽车客运尤其是中短途汽车客运在人们的现代生活中发挥重要的作用,它在拥有众多长处的同时也存在着许多问题和不足.从经济博弈论的角度,对客运车主和交通管理部门的行为进行分析,从而说明违规运营现象存在的原因并提出相应的解决措施.     

Game coloring the Cartesian product of graphs

This article proves the following result: Let G and G′ be graphs of orders n and n′, respectively. Let G^* be obtained from G by adding to each vertex a set of n′ degree 1 neighbors. If G^* has game coloring number m and G′ has acyclic chromatic number k, then the Cartesian product G□G′ has game chromatic number at most k(k + m ? 1). As a consequence, the Cartesian product of two forests has game chromatic number at most 10, and the Cartesian product of two planar graphs has game chromatic number at most 105. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 59: 261–278, 2008     

A dynamic approach to the Shapley value based on associated games

We propose a dynamic process leading to the Shapley value of TU games or any solution satisfying Inessential Game (IG) and Continuity (CONT), based on a modified version of Hamiache's notion of an associated game. The authors are very grateful to William Thomson and two anonymous referees for valuable comments which much improve the paper. They provide better statements and proofs of several major results than the original ones.     

模糊因子下知识产权保护与侵犯的动态博弈分析

针对知识产权屡禁不止的侵权行为现状,运用模糊数学、数理统计方法和博弈论原理,从知识产权保护和侵犯双方效用及模型出发,以系统和动态的视角对双方行为进了博弈分析.研究结果表明保护与侵犯构成为一对均衡策略状态,其主要原因在于一定条件下,保护方期望的效用均衡处于低水平态势,从而提出在效用模糊因子的调整中不断提高保护方的动态效用水平是推进有效保护知识产权的动力途径.     

A note on a core catcher of a cooperative game

In Driessen (1986) it is shown that for games satisfying a certain condition the core of the game is included in the convex hull of the set of certain marginal worth vectors of the game, while it is conjectured that the inclusion holds without any condition on the game. In this note it is proved that the inclusion holds for all games.

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Zusammenfassung In Driessen (1986) wurde für Spiele, die eine gewisse Bedingung erfüllen, gezeigt, da\ der Kern des Spieles in der konvexen Hülle von gewissen Vektoren der Marginalwerte liegt. Es wurde vermutet, da\ diese Inklusion ohne weitere Bedingung an das Spiel gilt. In dieser Note wird nun gezeigt, da\ die Inklusion für alle Spiele gilt.

     

非紧超凸度量空间中的一个新的极大元定理及其对抽象经济的应用

在非紧超凸度量空间中建立了一个新的极大元定理.作为应用，获得了连续选择及其不动点定理和一个Browder-Fan不动点定理.最后，新建了非紧超凸度量空间中的定性对策和抽象经济的平衡点存在定理.     

防范道德风险的博弈分析和契约设计

运用不完全信息动态博弈的理论，建立了一个防范道德风险的博弈模型．给出了该博弈的精炼贝叶斯纳什均衡．在此基础上给出了基于最优博弈策略的契约的具体形式。而这种基于博弈论的契约可以克服有成本的状态验证模型(CSV)及经典激励理论中承诺的可信性问题。     

基于利率市场化的银行贷款竞争导向定价策略研究

本文着重对两个银行之间竞争导向定价策略博弈行为进行了分析，认为在利率管制条件下，银行难以运用利率杠杆在信贷市场进行有效竞争；利率市场化之后，监管者不再对利率进行约束，银行信贷竞争的广度和深度都会随之加大。因此价格竞争将是银行信贷市场竞争的常态。