This paper investigates a retailer's incentive of sharing the private demand information with a supplier who may encroach the retail channel by exerting a fixed entry cost. Although the conventional wisdom suggests that a retailer should withhold her private demand observation to keep the...

In a hybrid-format supply chain, an intermediary serves as a reseller as well as a marketplace. This paper studies the intermediary's incentive to share the privately observed demand in- formation with its upstream supplier when the supplier can also engage in the marketplace offered by the...