We analyze self- and joint procurement of countries with heterogeneous demand for a good offered by a price discriminating monopolist. We find that not only countries with low but also with high demand can benefit from committing to jointly procure equal quantities at a uniform price, even if...

Procurement control (PC) is a practice that the buyer controls the material procurement of the supplier and at the same time takes the inventory risk from the supplier. In this paper we compare PC with a decentralized contracting practice (DC) in the setting of a risk-neutral buyer cooperating...

Während innerhalb des Themenkomplexes Electronic Commerce die elektronische Geschäftsabwicklung zwischen Unternehmen (B2B) sowie zwischen Firmen und Konsumenten (B2C) in der Literatur bereits ausführlich behandelt wurde, erfährt das unter der Überschrift des Electronic Government...