1 Pricing, greening, and transparency decisions considering the impact of government subsidies and CSR behavior in supply chain decisions Hossein Khosroshahi * khosroshahi@iut.ac.ir Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156- 83111, Iran Stanko Dimitrov sdimitro@uwaterloo.ca Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada Seyed Reza Hejazi rehejazi@cc.iut.ac.ir Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156- 83111, Iran Abstract In this paper, we analytically model different government subsidy strategies in a supply chain manufacturing and selling a green product. We model the interaction between greening degree and transparency level set by a manufacturer and its impact on not only the supply chain, but also consumers and the government. The supply chain is composed of a manufacturer and a retailer. The manufacturer can choose two different strategies. First, he only cares about his production profit; and second, he concerns with CSR in addition to his production profit. We develop a new transparency-based index of consumer satisfaction to model how the market reacts to manufacturer CSR decisions. The government decide three different subsidy strategies. A three-stage Stackelberg game model is developed and solved to analytically derive managerial insights. As a result, if the transparency cost coefficient is sufficiently high, the greening degree and transparency level in CSR concerns strategy are higher than when the manufacturer is not concerned with corporate social responsibility. In addition, when the transparency cost coefficient is sufficiently high, the profit of supply chain members and government are equal in both strategies. We give a real-world example of Iranian brick industry. * Corresponding author The final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2021.102485. © 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/