How can retailers incentivize customers to make healthier food choices? Price, convenience, and taste are known to be among the main drivers behind such choi...

We study the alliance formation strategy among suppliers in a one downstream firm-n upstream suppliers framework. Each supplier faces an exogenous random sho...

We consider a firm buying a commodity from the spot market as raw material and selling a final product by submitting bids. Bidding opportunities (i.e., deman...

<p> This paper investigates the effects of in-store availability on price matching guarantees (PMGs). Under the simplest form of PMG implementation, a fir...

Price-matching-guarantees (PMGs) are offers by firms whereby they assure customers that they will match any lower price offered by the competition for an i...

In this paper, we study a decentralized supply chain in which the manufacturer sells a short lifecycle product using wholesale price (only) contracts to a ...