Information Sharing Between Competitors With Endogenous Production Timing
Tian Li,
Huajiang Luo,
Weixin Shang
Abstract:We study two competing firms’ incentives for demand information sharing and their production timing strategies. One firm adopts routine timing, where her production time is fixed according to her previous product models’ manufacturing time. The other firm uses strategic timing, where his production time can be strategically chosen to occur before, concurrently with, or after that of the routine-timing firm. The firms decide whether to disclose their private demand information and make quantity decisions based … Show more
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