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The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
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The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...
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manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of …
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The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single … competition when aggregated firm data is used …
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This paper presents a simple model of airline schedule competition that circumvents the complexities of the spatial …
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broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …
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Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada. Niobium has an important role in steel alloys for the aerospace industry and future potential for the industry's superconductors. The present paper investigates the prevailing...
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prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …
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developing a novel approach to competition between different organizational forms, it frames the relevant trade-offs precisely …
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competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …
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