A Supplier's Optimal Quantity Discount Policy Under Asymmetric Information
研究供应商在不知道买家成本结构时，如何设计最优的数量折扣策略来降低自身和整个供应链的成本，并与完全信息下的情况做对比。
In the supply-chain literature, an increasing body of work studies how suppliers can use incentive schemes such as quantity discounts to influence buyers' ordering behaviour, thus reducing the supplier's (and the total supply chain's) costs. Various functional forms for such incentive schemes have been proposed, but a critical assumption always made is that the supplier has full information about the buyer's cost structure. We derive the optimal quantity discount policy under asymmetric information and compare it to the situation where the supplier has full information.