Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53293 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 44.2011
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We study dynamic multilateral markets, in which players' payoffs result from coalitional bargaining. In this setting, we establish payoff uniqueness of the stationary equilibria when players exhibit some degree of impatience. We focus on market games with different player types, and derive under mild conditions an explicit formula for each type's equilibrium payoff as market frictions vanish. The limit payoff of a type depends in an intuitive way on the supply and the demand for this type in the market, adjusted by the type-specific bargaining power. Our framework may be viewed as an alternative to the Walrasian price-setting mechanism. When we apply this methodology to the analysis of labor markets, we can determine endogenously the equilibrium firm size and remuneration scheme. We find that each worker type in a stationary market equilibrium is rewarded her marginal product, i.e. we obtain a strategic underpinning of the neoclassical wage. Interestingly, we can also replicate some standardized facts from the search-theoretical literature such as positive equilibrium unemployment.
Subjects: 
Multilateral Bargaining
Dynamic Markets
Labor Markets
JEL: 
C71
C72
C78
J30
L20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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