Publications

Bilateral Trade Disputes are Expected to Have Global Impact

2nd August 2018
KCG Secretary
Public Contributions
Public Contributions
The joint announcement of the US President, Donald Trump, and the President of the EU Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, towards easing EU-US trade disputes on July 25, 2018 was a surprise. It is a good sign that both EU and US agree on starting new rounds of negotiations to help remove trade barriers between the two economies[…]

Guli-Sanam Karimova Joined “Consumer Culture Theory” Conference in Odense, Denmark

12th July 2018
KCG Secretary
News
News
Guli-Sanam Karimova, PhD Researcher of the KCG project “Cross-cultural differences in the perception of corporate social responsibility and consumer social responsibility along global supply chains”, was invited to join the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) Conference that took place at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) from June 28 to July 1, 2018 in Odense. The overarching theme this year was […]

Incentives through Inventory Control in Supply Chains

19th June 2018
KCG Secretary
Authors: Zhan Qu, Horst Raff and Nicolas Schmitt (International Journal of Industrial Organization 59, 2018, 486-513, International Journal of Industrial Organization)

The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially
for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions[…]