We consider the economic lot-sizing (ELS) game with general concave ordering cost.In this cooperative game, multiple retailers form a coalition by placing joint orders to asingle supplier in order to reduce ordering cost. When both the inventory holding costand backlogging cost are linear...

A newsvendor game studies whether players can collaborate on inventory pooling, where the cost allocation is usually analyzed by the notion of core in cooperative game theory. It is known that the core of the newsvendor game is non-empty and one can use duality theory in stochastic programming...

We expand the set of outcomes considered by the tournament literature to include draws and use games from post-war chess tournaments to see whether strategic behavior is important in such scenarios. In particular, we examine whether players from the former Soviet Union acted as a cartel in...