Financing Strategy and Carbon Emission Abatement in a Supply Chain considering Retailers’ Competition

Table 1

Notation.

	Wholesale price charged by the manufacturer
h	Cost coefficient of carbon emission abatement
e	Carbon emission abatement level
	Retail price charged by retailer i
	Order quantity of retailer i
a	Market size
	Retailer 1’s underlying market share
	Substitutability of products
	Consumers’ price sensitivity to the emission abatement
	Basic bank interest rate
	Impact factor of bank interest rate related to retailers
	The interest rate charged by the bank on retailer i
	The interest rate charged by the manufacturer under trade credit
	The interest rate charged by the bank on the manufacturer
	Retailer i’s loan size borrowed from the manufacturer