This paper examines the incentives for firms to share information vertically in a two-level supply chain in which there are one upstream firm, a manufacturer, and many downstream firms, retailers. The retailers are engaged in a Cournot competition and are endowed with some private information....

This paper is concerned with confidentiality of vertical information sharing in a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer in the upstream and two or more retailers in the downstream engaging in a Bertrand competition. Each retailer has some private information about the uncertain demand and...