Lin, Zhibing - In: Journal of management science and engineering 7 (2022) 3, pp. 405-422
vertically integrated producer but is not necessarily detrimental to itself. In particular, information sharing increases the … integrated producer always benefits from the increase in forecast accuracy and the downstream rival may be worse off in some … downstream rival's profit in the centralized channel structure when the demand signal is relatively accurate. (3)The vertically …