AMS classifications: 90D12, 90C05, 90C34.

In this paper we consider information collecting (IC) situations where an action taker in an uncertain situation can improve his action choices by gathering information from some players who are more informed about the situation. Then the problem of sharing the gains when cooperating with...

AMS classifications: 90D12, 90B05.

Market entry situations are modelled, where an entrepreneur has to decide for a collection of markets which market to enter and which not. The entrepreneur can improve his prior information by making use of a group of informants, each of them knowing the situation in one or more markets. For...

AMS classification: 90D12;

AMS classifications: 90D12, 90C05, 90C34.

AMS classifications: 90A15, 90D12.

AMS classifications: 90D12, 90C05.

Relations are established between information sharing (IS) situations and IS-games on one hand and information collecting (IC) situations and IC-games on the other hand. It is shown that IC-games can be obtained as convex combinations of so-called local games. Properties are described which...

AMS classifications: 90D12; 90C05; 90C34;