Title
Large newsvendor games
Abstract
We consider a game, called newsvendor game, where several retailers, who face a random demand, can pool their resources and build a centralized inventory that stocks a single item on their behalf. Profits have to be allocated in a way that is advantageous to all the retailers. A game in characteristic form is obtained by assigning to each coalition its optimal expected profit. We consider newsvendor games with possibly an infinite number of newsvendors. We prove in great generality results about balancedness of the game, and we show that in a game with a continuum of players, under a nonatomic condition on the demand, the core is a singleton. For a particular class of demands we show how the core shrinks to a singleton when the number of players increases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.geb.2006.04.003
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
Field
DocType
C710
Simultaneous game,Combinatorial game theory,Economics,Mathematical economics,Repeated game,Screening game,Sequential game,Non-cooperative game,Example of a game without a value,Extensive-form game
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
2
0899-8256
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luigi Montrucchio16823.02
Marco Scarsini216433.96