Encouraging interest in inventory management necessitates that instructors overcome concerns that the subject is too abstract or conceptual. To aid in this process, we describe a competition engaging students in concepts, including demand estimation, demand uncertainty, and costs of inventory...

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...