In this dissertation, two research topics are investigated: the demand information asymmetry in a decentralized inventory sharing supply chain and the quality-based supplier selection. For the first research topic, previous literature on inventory sharing has assumed that retailers' demand...

The hedge fund (HF) industry has experienced dramatic changes since late 2007. Before then, HF managers faced little or no competition because of affluent capital in the market. Since then, however, large redemption because of the financial crisis has forced managers to compete for capital,...

During the recent financial crisis, capital flow to hedge funds plunged, and competition among hedge fund managers intensified. This leads to a transfer of bargaining power from hedge fund managers to investors when negotiating fund managers' compensation contracts. We use a signaling game...