Quantifying the efficiency of price-only contracts in push supply chains over demand distributions of known supports

Author-Highlights
• We quantify efficiency of price-only contracts in supply chains.
• The bounds on price of anarchy established in this work have some novel features.
• We identify the relative range as a pivotal parameter.
• Price-only contracts maintain efficiency when demand uncertainty is relatively low.

In this paper, we quantify the efficiency of price-only contracts in supply chains with demand distributions by imposing prior knowledge only on the support, namely, those distributions with support [a,b][a,b] for 0