This work explores the potential of revenue sharing contracts to facilitate information sharing in a supply chain and mitigate the negative effects of information leakage. We consider a supplier who offers a revenue sharing contract to two competing retailers, one of whom has private information...

We investigate the performance of two commonly used pricing schemes -- hourly-rate contract and two-part tariff -- in service environments where the buyer's valuation is invisible to the service provider and the provider's effort may not be visible to the buyer. In the private effort...