intermediary to disclose consumer information to advertisers when auctioning ad impressions. We show that disclosing information … that enables advertisers to optimize the allocation of ads on multi-homing consumers is profitable to the intermediary only … outsource the sale of their ads to an intermediary, and relate these incentives to the extent of consumer multi-homing, the …

This article develops a model in which an intermediary uses a supply chain finance (SCF) program to fund suppliers. The … needs. We show that the intermediary optimally selects not only suppliers with positive profitability but also suppliers …

diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (brand equity), whereas trade through an … intermediary can take two forms - either a wholesaling arrangement that (also) maintains the exporter's unique brand but imposes a … other firms' output and re-sold under a new private label brand created by the intermediary. This paper focuses on the …