Contracting with Asymmetric Information in Supply Chains H. LI, P. RITCHKEN, and Y. WANG ∗ April 27, 2007 * Li and Ritchken are from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Re- spective phone numbers: 216-368-2196 and 216-368-3849, and Emails: hantao.li@cwru.edu and phr@case.edu. Wang is at the School of Management of University of Texas at Dallas, telephone 972-883-2458 and e-mail: yun- zeng.wang@utdallas.edu. The authors would like to thank the Associate Editor and Gerard Cachon for their initial comments that have led to signicant improvements to the readability of the paper. The authors are grateful to an Associate Editor and three anonymous referees who reviewed a paper of ours that was submitted previously; their keen insights halped us develop the current paper.