We concentrate on a principal and agent system often seen in supply chain management studies. Under reasonable conditions, we show that a nearly systematic three-step method can be used to find coordination contracts for the system. The number of terms involved in our contract is in some sense...

We introduce the nonatomic supermodular game, where no playerʼs action has any discernible impact on other playersʼ payoffs and yet strategic complementarities prevail among all playersʼ types and actions. For both semi-anonymous and anonymous games, we show that monotone equilibria form...

The eastern route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD-ER) project is a massive-scale interbasin system to transfer water from the Yangtze River to North China. With the infrastructure construction close to completion, the project is now faced with many complicated operations management...