Different from previous literature on credit term determination mainly applying financial marginal analysis method, this paper proposes a novel idea to model trade credit term determination as an incentive mechanism design problem under supply chain coordination in principal-agent framework. With application of Schwartz' financing motive theory, a new form of supplier's net cost function is derived which makes it possible to find an approximation closed-formed solution to term determination. Using approximation and integration techniques, we find the explicit close-formed approximation solutions to the optimal payment time for the retailer and credit term for the supplier. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Shi, X. J., Zhang, Z. X., & Zhu, F. F. (2007). Trade credit term determination under supply chain coordination: A principal-agent model. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4681 LNCS, pp. 56–67). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74171-8_7
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