We examine transshipment incentives in a decentralized supply chain where a monopolist distributes a product through independent retailers. A key insight is that the transshipment price determines whether the firms benefit from, or are hurt by, transshipment. In particular, we show that the...

With the rapid development of express delivery industry, the service quality becomes a topic of interest for academic research. This paper extended the previous research by studying the learning effect in express delivery industry. We propose a two-period model to analyse how the learning effect...