A firm hires a consultant to acquire demand information. The outcome of information acquisition may turn out to be successful such that the firm becomes informed of the market demand, or unsuccessful such that it remains uninformed. After the outcome becomes clear, the firm learns its...

We study information dissemination in an online platform where multiple sellers distribute their partially substitutable products. The platform has superior information about consumer demand and determines whether, and with how many sellers, to share the information. An important feature of our...

The extant research on supply chain information sharing under wholesale pricing often assumes a model where the manufacturer can unilaterally set any wholesale price, and the retailer decides retail quantity or price while taking the wholesale price as given. Whereas this model may actually...

This study investigates strategic information sharing in supply chains where a retailer can ex post decide whether to share private demand information with an upstream manufacturer after the content of information becomes known. We highlight the equilibrium interaction between the retailer’s...