This study explores the role of trade credit using a unique sample of long-term supply contracts collected from SEC filings. The contracts provide rich detail of the variation in the types and amounts of credit, as well as buyer and supplier characteristics and other product market variables. I...

We study a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a supplier and a retailer, where the supplier uses a simple and easily implementable incentive scheme - making a side payment - to influence the retailer's ordering plan. The supplier makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer to the retailer in the form...