together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … collaborate. The results show that as costs of forming links increase, groups succeed less often in solving the coordination …

This paper provides a formal analysis on the investment coordination problem in a vertically separated electricity … decisions of network and power plants need to be coordinated. In unbundled markets, firm-internal coordination no longer applies …. We develop a formal approach to examine whether sim- ple information exchange ("cheap talk") could restore coordination …

presenting an overview of the literature that shows various coordination mechanisms but no backup agreement proposals for supply … chain coordination, this paper develops a decentralized three-echelon supply chain facing stochastic customer demand and … includes the backup agreement as a coordination mechanism to guarantee a balanced relationship between the chain members. The …