Mean-variance analysis of wholesale price contracts with a capital-constrained retailer: Trade credit financing vs. bank credit financing

Honglin Yang, Wenyan Zhuo, Lusheng Shao and Srinivas Talluri

European Journal of Operational Research, 2021, vol. 294, issue 2, 525-542

Abstract: This paper studies wholesale price contracts with risk constraints in a supply chain consisting of a supplier and a capital-constrained retailer. A newsvendor-like retailer may borrow from a bank or use trade credit to fund his business. We construct a mean-variance model to analyze the decisions involved in the design of the wholesale price contract under both trade credit financing and bank credit financing. We characterize the conditions under which the supplier is willing to provide trade credit and those under which the retailer prefers bank credit or trade credit. We find that the supply chain member's risk aversion attitude plays an important role in determining the financing equilibrium. Contrasting with some existing studies, our results show that trade credit financing may lead to a win-win result only when the supplier's risk aversion threshold is moderate.

Keywords: Capital constraint; Bank credit; Trade credit; Risk constraints; Mean-variance model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.01.042

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