We consider a communications network in which users transmit beneficial information to each other at a cost. We pinpoint conditions under which the induced cooperative game is supermodular (convex). Our analysis is in a lattice-theoretic framework, which is at once simple and able to encompass a...

There are many situations in which a customer's proclivity to buy the product of any firm depends not only on the classical attributes oft he product such as its price and quality, but also on who else is buying the same product. We model these situations as games in which firms compete for...

There is a significant ever-growing controversy about the role of R&D in the corporate decision-making structure for the US markets. R&D results have been found to be lack-luster creating erosion of trust in the value of R&D in American corporate world. This study sheds light on the relationship...