Anand, Krishnan; Anupindi, Ravi; Bassok, Yehuda - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 10, pp. 1792-1804
industrial organization that studies incentives for vertical controls largely ignores the effect of inventories. Does the ability … to carry inventory influence the problem of vertical control? Conversely, can inventories arise purely due to incentive … effects? This paper explicitly considers both incentives and inventories, and their interplay, in a dynamic model of an …