To yield strategic benefits for all participants, collaboration between OEMs and suppliers have to be based on win-win partnerships. It is uncertain whether this concept deals with a visionary myth or a realistic model. To clarify this, win-win partnerships are examined on the basis of the three...

The question of how a pure fiat currency is enforced and comes to have a non-zero value has been much debated (Selgin, 1994). What is less often addressed is, in the case where the enforcement is taken for granted and we ask what value (in terms of goods and services) the currency will end up...