Brown Bag Seminar: Philippe Chevalier

Models for horizontal supply chain collaboration

Philippe CHEVALIER, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain

Horizontal collaboration can enable firms to reap economies of scale. In this talk we will present models for different types of collaboration ranging from Joint Ventures to joint planning of production equipment. Depending on the nature of the collaboration agreement, the incentive problems to be solved to reach an agreement that is both efficient and stable are different. In this talk we present different models to study collaboration agreements between firms. We analyse the investment decision, the capacity allocation decision and the short term planning decision.