This study analyzes a monopolistic seller’s optimal differential pricing problem with strategic consumers connected in social networks. The consumers who purchase in the later period can get positive externality from their friends who purchased in the early period but have to bear a utility...

Capital constraints are prevalent in supply chains. Since traditional bank financing is often inaccessible, especially for small and medium enterprises, two new alternatives, purchase order financing (POF) and buyer direct financing (BDF), are receiving increasing attention for financing...

We study a strategic information management problem in the export-processing trade, where the buyer controls the raw material input and sales and the producer is responsible for production. The production is vulnerable to random yield risk. The producer can exert a costly effort to acquire the...

Customer panic buying behaviors have been widely observed in recent years, especially when there is supply disruption risk. We study how a profit-maximizing retailer or a welfare-maximizing government can use information design to effectively influence customer behaviors. We use the Bayesian...