›› 2018, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 227-237.

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Quality Incentives Based on Newsvendor Model under Asymmetric Information

Wang Qian1,2, Xie Chunyu1, Cui Yiwen1   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190;
    2. Key laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190
  • Received:2017-03-08 Online:2018-06-28 Published:2018-06-25

Abstract:

This paper studies the quality incentive issue of " supplier-retailer" supply chain with asymmetric information. Based on whether the retailer shares the quality inspection information, the issue is divided into two cases:single moral hazard and double moral hazard. For each case, we design two incentive contracts based on internal or external failures information using principal-agent models. Under single moral hazard, both contracts can achieve the optimal decision of symmetric information, while under double moral hazard, neither of them can achieve the optimal decision. At last, we compare the two quality incentive contracts under double moral hazard with numerical experiment. The results show that the higher quality can be achieved by the contract based on internal failures information under double moral hazard.

Key words: quality incentives, newsvendor model, moral hazard, principal-agent theory