This paper on “resale price maintenance” (RPM) has three main parts:(i) Using a simple and parsimonious model, we show that even with only one retailer, a “supplier” or “manufacturer” (hereafter “Manu”) should impose minimum-RPM under some circumstances but maximum-RPM in others....

‘Slotting fee’ (hereafter ‘SF’) is an upfront fee a ‘supplier’ is required to pay a retailer in order to have his product sold on the retailer's shelves. It is becoming increasingly common, but also widely reviled. This paper considers a newsvendor product whose expected demand is...

We introduce a method to construct asymmetrical orthogonal arrays through the generalized Kronecker sum of (nonorthogonal) mixed-level matrix and mixed difference matrices. This method is distinct from that of Wang and Wu (1991) and produces a new class of arrays