This article proposes a two-stage oligopoly model for the crude oil market. In a game of several Stackelberg leaders, market power increases endogenously as the spare capacity of the competitive fringe goes down. This effect is due to the specific cost function characteristics of extractive industries. The model captures the increase of OPEC market power before the financial crisis and its dras...

According to conventional wisdom internationally mobile capital should not be taxed or should be taxed at a lower rate than labour. An important underlying assumption behind this view is that there are no market imperfections, in particular that labour markets clear competitively. At least for Europe, which has been suffering from high unemployment for a long time, this assumption does not seem...

We consider settings in which voters vote in sequence, each voter knows the votes of the earlier voters and the preferences of the later voters, and voters are strategic. This can be modeled as an extensive-form game of perfect information, which we call a Stackelberg voting game. We first propose a dynamic-programming algorithm for finding the backward-induction outcome for any Stackelberg vot...

the strategic pricing decisions of assembly products in assembly products supply chain are studied in this paper. firstly, a two-stage assembly products supply chain model is developed. by building nash game model, the nash equilibrium solution of pricing strategy of supplier and assemblers is obtained. next, a union decision model is built to analyze the optimal combination pricing strategy of...

The problem of channel choice is investigated from the point of view of the users’ benefit function and a novel solution is proposed. When users possess a channel, the minimum-lending-priority channel is assigned from nominal channel in one’s own cell firstly. If there is no vacancy, it is borrowed from the neighborhood cells. When users release channel, the minimum cost function channel is cho...

Security systems for email spam filtering, network intrusion detection, steganalysis, and watermarking, frequently use classifiers to separate malicious behavior from legitimate. Typically, they use a fixed operating point minimizing the expected cost / error. This allows a rational attacker to deliver invisible attacks just below the detection threshold. We model this situation as a non-zero s...

We present the results of an experiment on learning in a continuous-time low-information setting. For a dominance solvable version of a Cournot oligopoly with differentiated products, we find little evidence of convergence to the Nash equilibrium. In an asynchronous setting, characterized by players updating their strategies at different frequencies, play tends toward the Stackelberg outcome wh...

Under the background of low-carbon economy, cross-shareholding is introduced into closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) composed a manufacturer and retailer, centralized three decentralized decision-making models with different channel power structures are constructed. The recovery, emission reduction, pricing decisions CLSC studied, two-part-tariff contract proposed to coordinate CLSC. results indic...

Consumers’ strategic purchasing behavior has a great influence on the pricing and sales of new products. In order to study impact consumers 5G mobile phones, we establish two-period model. The supply chain contains two manufacturers, communications operator phone retailer. Cases where manufacturers have same or different rights are researched by using Stackelberg game Nash Our research results ...

Sequential allocation is a simple mechanism for sharing multiple indivisible items. We study strategic behavior in sequential allocation. In particular, we consider Nash dynamics, as well as the computation and Pareto optimality of pure equilibria, and Stackelberg strategies. We first demonstrate that, even for two agents, better responses can cycle. We then present a linear-time algorithm that...