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Trade credit contracting in a risk-averse supply chain under adverse selection and moral hazard

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CSTR: 32290.14.JUSTC-2023-0077
https://doi.org/10.52396/JUSTC-2023-0077
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  • Author Bio:

    Zhihong Wang is a Professor at Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2006. Her research mainly focuses on supply chain management, supply chain financing, and behavioral operations management

    Yuwei Shao is a graduate student at Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago. Her research mainly focuses on financial mathematics

  • Corresponding author: E-mail: lilywzh@dhu.edu.cn; E-mail: kajesmeeyuw@gmail.com
  • Received Date: 07 May 2023
  • Accepted Date: 18 August 2023
  • Available Online: 10 October 2024
  • Trade credit, as an effective tool for integrating and coordinating material, information, and financial flows in supply chain management, is becoming increasingly widespread. We explore how a manufacturer can design optimal trade credit contracts when a risk-averse retailer hides its sales cost information (adverse selection) and selling effort level (moral hazard). We develop incentive models for a risk-averse supply chain when adverse selection and moral hazard coexist, which are then compared with the results under single information asymmetry (moral hazard). Moreover, we analyze the effects of private information and risk-aversion coefficient on contract parameters, selling effort level and the profit or utility of the supply chain. The study shows that when the degree of retailer’s risk aversion is within a certain range, reasonable trade credit contracts designed by the manufacturer can effectively induce the retailer to report its real sales cost and encourage it to exert appropriate effort. Furthermore, we find that the optimal trade credit period, optimal transfer payment, and retailer’s optimal sales effort level under dual information asymmetry are less than under single information asymmetry. Numerical analysis are conducted to demonstrate the effects of the parameters on decisions and profits.
    The overall framework of our delivery selection model.
    Trade credit, as an effective tool for integrating and coordinating material, information, and financial flows in supply chain management, is becoming increasingly widespread. We explore how a manufacturer can design optimal trade credit contracts when a risk-averse retailer hides its sales cost information (adverse selection) and selling effort level (moral hazard). We develop incentive models for a risk-averse supply chain when adverse selection and moral hazard coexist, which are then compared with the results under single information asymmetry (moral hazard). Moreover, we analyze the effects of private information and risk-aversion coefficient on contract parameters, selling effort level and the profit or utility of the supply chain. The study shows that when the degree of retailer’s risk aversion is within a certain range, reasonable trade credit contracts designed by the manufacturer can effectively induce the retailer to report its real sales cost and encourage it to exert appropriate effort. Furthermore, we find that the optimal trade credit period, optimal transfer payment, and retailer’s optimal sales effort level under dual information asymmetry are less than under single information asymmetry. Numerical analysis are conducted to demonstrate the effects of the parameters on decisions and profits.
    • The study explores how the manufacturer designs optimal trade credit contracts when adverse selection and moral hazard coexist.
    • The manufacturer can identify the retailer’s private information and motivate it to exert the optimal effort level by designing acceptable and appropriate trade credit contracts.
    • The manufacturer can identify the retailer’s private information and motivate it to exert the optimal effort level by designing acceptable and appropriate trade credit contracts.

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    Figure  1.  The effects of sales cost $ {C}_{r} $ on the supply chain’s profit and utility y ($ k=0.5,{C}_{r}\in \left[\mathrm{110,130}\right] $).

    Figure  2.  The effects of risk aversion coefficient $ k $ on the supply chain’s profit and utility ($ {C}_{r}=120,k\in \left[0,2\right] $).

    [1]
    Seifert D, Seifert R W, Protopappa-Sieke M. A review of trade credit literature: Opportunities for research in operations. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2013, 231 (2): 245–256. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.016
    [2]
    Chen S C, Teng J T. Inventory and credit decisions for time-varying deteriorating items with up-stream and down-stream trade credit financing by discounted cash flow analysis. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2015, 243 (2): 566–575. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.12.007
    [3]
    Wang K, Zhao R, Peng, J. Trade credit contracting under asymmetric credit default risk: Screening, checking or insurance. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2018, 266 (2): 554–568. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.10.004
    [4]
    Zhong Y G, Zhou Y W. Improving the supply chain's performance through trade credit under inventory-dependent demand and limited storage capacity. Int. J. Prod. Econ., 2013, 143 (2): 364–370. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.07.013
    [5]
    Tsao Y C. Channel coordination under two-level trade credits and demand uncertainty. Appl. Math. Comput., 2017, 52: 160–173. doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2017.07.046
    [6]
    Sarkar B, Ahmed W, Kim N. Joint effects of variable carbon emission cost and multi-delay-in-payments under single-setup-multiple-delivery policy in a global sustainable supply chain. J. Clean. Prod., 2018, 185: 421–445. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.215
    [7]
    Wang Z H, Qi L, Zhang Y, et al. A trade-credit-based incentive mechanism for a risk-averse retailer with private information. Comput. Ind. Eng., 2021, 154: 107101. doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107101
    [8]
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    Wang Z H, Liu S F. Supply chain coordination under trade credit and quantity discount with sales effort effects. Math. Probl. Eng. , 2018, 20182190236. doi: 10.1155/2018/2190236
    [12]
    Haley C W, Higgins R C. Inventory policy and trade credit financing. Manage. Sci., 1973, 20 (4): 464–471. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.20.4.464
    [13]
    Goyal S K. Economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments. J. Oper. Res. Soc., 1985, 36 (4): 1069–1069. doi: 10.1057/jors.1985.56
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    Huang Y F. Optimal retailer’s ordering policies in the EOQ model under trade credit financing. J. Oper. Res. Soc., 2003, 54 (9): 1011–1015. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601588
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    [18]
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    [19]
    Pramanik P, Maiti M K, Maiti M. Three level partial trade credit with promotional cost sharing. Applied Soft Computing, 2017, 58: 553–575. doi: 10.1016/j.asoc.2017.04.013
    [20]
    Jaber M Y, Osman I H. Coordinating a two-level supply chain with delay in payments and profit sharing. Comput. Ind. Eng., 2006, 50: 385–400. doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2005.08.004
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    Luo J W. Buyer–vendor inventory coordination with credit period incentives. Int. J. Prod. Econ., 2007, 108 (12): 143–152. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2006.12.007
    [22]
    Yang S, Hong K S, Lee C L. Supply chain coordination with stock-dependent demand rate and credit incentives. Int. J. Prod. Econ., 2014, 157 (1): 105–111. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.06.014
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    Wu D, Zhang B, Baron O. A trade credit model with asymmetric competing retailers. Prod. Oper. Manag., 2019, 28 (1): 206–231. doi: 10.1111/poms.12882
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    Kouvelis P, Zhao W H. Who should finance the supply chain. Impact of credit ratings on supply chain decisions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017, 20 (1): 19–35. doi: 10.1287/msom.2017.0669
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    Yan N N, He X L. Optimal trade credit with deferred payment and multiple decision attributes in supply chain finance. Comput. Ind. Eng., 2020, 145: 106627. doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2020.106627
    [32]
    Li B, An S M, Song D P. Selection of financing strategies with a risk-averse supplier in a capital-constrained supply chain. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2018, 118: 163–183. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2018.06.007
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    Zhang Y M, Chen W D. Optimal production and financing portfolio strategies for a capital-constrained closed-loop supply chain with OEM remanufacturing. J. Clean. Prod., 2021, 279: 123467. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123467
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    Luo J W, Zhang Q H. Trade credit: A new mechanism to coordinate supply chain. Oper. Res. Lett., 2012, 40 (5): 378–384. doi: 10.1016/j.orl.2012.04.008
    [35]
    Devalkar S K, Krishnan H. The impact of working capital financing costs on the efficiency of trade credit. Prod. Oper. Manag., 2019, 28 (4): 878–889. doi: 10.1111/poms.12954
    [36]
    Yue X, Liu J. Demand forecast sharing in a dual-channel supply chain. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2006, 174 (1): 646–667. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.12.020
    [37]
    Lal R, Srinivasan V. Compensation plans for single-and multi-product salesforces: An application of the Holmstrom-Milgrom model. Management Science, 1993, 39 (7): 777–793. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.39.7.777
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    Chen F R. Salesforce incentives, marketing information and production inventory planning. Management Science, 2005, 51 (1): 60–75. doi: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0217
    [39]
    Lariviere M A. A note on probability distributions with increasing generalized failure rates. Oper. Res., 2006, 54 (3): 602–604. doi: 10.1287/opre.1060.0282
    [40]
    Lariviere M A, Porteus E L. Selling to the newsvendor: an analysis of price-only contracts. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2001, 3 (4): 293–305. doi: 10.1287/msom.3.4.293.9971
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    Lau H S. The newsboy problem under alternative optimization objectives. J. Oper. Res. Soc., 1980, 31 (6): 525–535. doi: 10.1057/jors.1980.96
    [42]
    Çakanyıldırım M, Feng Q, Gan X H, et al. Contracting and coordination under asymmetric production cost information. Prod. Oper. Manag., 2012, 21 (2): 345–360. doi: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01258.x
    [43]
    Chen K B, Zhao H M, Xiao T J. Outsourcing contracts and ordering decisions of a supply chain under multi-dimensional uncertainties. Comput. Ind. Eng., 2019, 130: 127–141. doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2019.02.010
    [44]
    Myerson R B. Incentive compatibility and the bargaining problem. Econometrica, 1979, 47 (1): 61–73. doi: 10.2307/1912346
    [45]
    Bazaraa M S, Sherali H D, Shetty C M. Nonlinear Programming: Theory and Algorithms. 2nd Edition. New York: Wiley, 1993.

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