In this paper, I examine duopoly with multi-services, where firms offer delivery prices and mill prices at the same time, and each consumer chooses one of them. In the equilibria, firms specialize in delivery services even if their transport costs are higher than consumers'. This result is...

Existing literature on dealer liquidity provision and inventory management has focused on dealer inventory costs. I uncover a new inventory benefit channel: dealers strategically build inventory in order to compete for market share. I assess the relative impact of the inventory benefit and costs...

Established findings suggest that strategic inventory may alleviate double marginalization and improve the efficiency of a decentralized distribution channel. In this paper, we examine the effect of strategic inventory in the presence of chain-to-chain competition. We show that as the...