Members of a supply chain often make profit comparisons. A retailer exhibits peer-induced fairness concerns when his own profit is behind that of a peer retailer interacting with the same supplier. In addition, a retailer exhibits distributional fairness concerns when his supplier's share of...

This paper studies a supply contracting problem where a buyer sources a product from a supplier to satisfy uncertain market demand. With the increasing length and complexity of today's global supply chains, the buyer may face two issues when designing the supply contract: adverse selection...