Put Option Contracts in Newsvendor Model with Bankruptcy Risk
Abstract
This paper studies a newsvendor problem in which the retailer can mix two contracts, a wholesale price and a put option contract. We consider that the newsvendor is financially constrained and may need to contract a loan to cover her ordering costs, with a probability that she becomes bankrupted. We show that when a put option contract is available, the retailer’s order quantity increases, while the bankruptcy risk and therefore the loan’s interest rate decrease. We illustrate these results with numerical experiments on a simple example for different demand sizes and variability.
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