Game theoretic analysis of a supplier-retailer system in a two-period newsvendor setting reveals that, on the part of the retailer, committing to disposal of inventory, that is to discard unsold inventory, rather than carryover to the next period, is preferred, under certain conditions, because...

Much of experimental research in marketing has focused on individual choices. Yet in many contexts, the outcomes of one’s choices depend on the choices of others. Furthermore, the results obtained in individual decision making context may not be applicable to these strategic choices. In this...

The trust game, a simple two-person economic exchange, has been extensively used as experimental measures for trust and trustworthiness of individuals. Here, we develop deep neural network-based artificial intelligence (AI) agents to participate a series of experiments based upon the trust game....

Recent behavioral studies have demonstrated that decision makers may not always optimize their performance, and several modeling approaches have been proposed to explain this boundedly rational behavior. In this paper we model two forms of bounded rationality in a newsvendor setting: the...