Financial executives of firms engaged in forward contracting have raised concerns that mandated disclosure of those contracts would reveal proprietary information to rival firms. This paper considers the basis for those concerns in the framework of a duopoly in which one privately informed...

Suppose that rival downstream producers of a final good contract with the same upstream supplier of an input and, in the process, reveal private information. A vertical merger between the upstream supplier and one of the downstream firms may dissipate the information advantage of the remaining...

We investigate the impacts of a retailer's store brand entry on a national-brand manufacturer's sales decisions and firm's profitability. Under symmetric information, the manufacturer always responds by lowering the wholesale price and sales quantity and suffers when the retailer's store brand...