Increasing consolidation and vertical coordination in the food chain have made the prospect
of market power abuses by powerful food manufacturers and retailers an issue and a policy …

A “Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains” has become a workhorse bargaining model in
applied analyses of bilateral oligopoly. This paper proposes a noncooperative foundation for …

Problem definition: We explore the impacts of store-brand (SB) introduction on multilateral
contracting in vertical supply relationships that involve two upstream national-brand …

This article investigates the effects of changes in market concentration on the equilibrium
prices in a supply chain. Results are derived from a theoretical model of bilateral bargaining …

In this study, we predict and provide evidence that distressed firms that rely more heavily on
major customers for sales have a comparatively higher incidence of receiving going …

In many markets, relationship specific investments are necessary for trade. These formed
relationships constitute a networked market in which not all buyers can trade with all sellers …

In emerging markets, private label growth has not kept pace with the growth in private labels
elsewhere. In Europe and North America, private labels now constitute an average of 35% of …

With the development of the retail industry and the increasing complexity of the power
relationship between common retailers and manufacturers, research on product …

This chapter presents an overview of advances in the structural analysis of contracting in
vertical markets over the past fifteen years. We provide a discussion of theoretical models of …

This paper investigates the effects of buyer power on entry into an atomistic upstream market
and economic welfare. Under reasonable market conditions, we show that industries with a …