This article describes the initial project development stages of the direct delivery of goods from Europe which based on the example of retailers of Perm Krai. Main advantages, problems and risks arising in the implementing this project were reflected, moreover, examples of solutions to these...

Transport constraints limit competition and arbitrageurs' possibilities of exploiting price differences between commodities in neighbouring markets. We analyze a transportation network where oligopoly producers compete with supply functions under uncertain demand, as in wholesale electricity...

The article reveals the barriers for the organization of network business in Russia. The article shows the example of competitive opposition between local retail systems and regional and federal trading networks on the materials of one of Perm region municipality.

We develop a model of decentralized markets in which trading environment is determined by a general network structure. We study how the equilibrium allocation and liquidity depend on the network topology and how an agent’s risk exposure depends on other agents’ exposures. Agents hold...