relationship as an informal contract based on trust and punishment, where a news source decides if and how much information to … made available to the audience. -- news sources ; media bias ; informal contracts …

We study how informal buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry affect procurement. Using unique …

Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry … only when the buyer has the bargaining power. This ability disappears when the bargaining power resides with the supplier(s). …

by 8 - 15% compared to only offering a pay-per-use contract. -- access services ; pricing contracts ; decision biases … consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate that consumption is affected by contract structure (pay-peruse vs …. We also measure subjects' willingness to pay for a contract with free access units, and we find that nearly half of …

Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings …. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that … the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes payments to third parties necessary. This paper studies …

shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting …

retailer, and slotting allowances can facilitate such incentives by increasing unit wholesale prices. At first glance, it is …A manufacturer's incentives to undertake non-contractible investments depend on the profit margin on her sales to the … manufacturer and one retailer, where the manufacturer undertakes noncontractible demand-enhancing investments. The predictions from …