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Centralized versus Decentralized Inventory Control in Supply Chains and the Bullwhip Effect
Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst - 2017
This paper constructs a model of a supply chain to examine how demand volatility is passed upstream through the chain. In particular, we seek to determine how likely it is that the chain experiences a bullwhip effect, where the variance of the upstream firm's production exceeds the variance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736756
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Centralized versus decentralized inventory control in supply chains and the bullwhip effect
Zhan, Qu; Raff, Horst - 2017
This paper constructs a model of a supply chain to examine how demand volatility is passed upstream through the chain. In particular, we seek to determine how likely it is that the chain experiences a bullwhip effect, where the variance of the upstream firms’ production exceeds the variance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820911
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Buyer Power in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2008
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260613
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Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265260
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Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276305
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Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276624
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277350
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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277404
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Imports and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011
, and that restrictions on retailing, as they occur in several countries, may significantly alter this transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305877
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Retailing and international trade: A survey of the literature
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2015
retailing at the industry level to discuss what we know about the impact of trade liberalization on structural changes in … retailing, such as changes in market concentration and the size distribution of retail firms, on retailers' assortments and even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487923