Our paper studies the role of the performance-based incentives in managing the effects of consolidation in healthcare markets. We consider a transition between the ``pre-merger'' market configuration where a payer manages a system with two competing hospitals and one of the two ``consolidated''...

This paper studies the purchasing behaviour of a loss-averse engineer-to-order manufacturer, who purchases a key component for his final product from a supplier under a single-wholesale-price contract with spot purchase opportunities, where both the product demand and the component spot price...