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....

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...

This paper considers a model with two competing supply chains where production costs are private information within a supply chain, but manufacturers can decide to share this information with the rival manufacturer. In contrast to existing literature, we study bottom-up negotiations, where...