Barnes-Schuster, Dawn; Bassok, Yehuda; Anupindi, Ravi - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 4 (2002) 3, pp. 171-207
We investigate the role of options (contingent claims) in a buyer-supplier system. Specifically using a two-period model with correlated demand, we illustrate how options provide flexibility to a buyer to respond to market changes in the second period. We also study the implications of such...