Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94767 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 555
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In intermediate goods markets, both buyers and sellers normally have market power, and sales are based on bilaterally negotiated contracts specifying both price and quantity. In our model, pairs of buyers and sellers meet in bilateral but interdependent Rubinstein-Ståhl negotiations. The outcome has a simple characterization (a Nash equilibrium in Nash bargaining solutions) suitable for applied work. Equilibrium quantities are efficient regardless of concentration and also with few “trading links”. The law of one price does not hold. In addition to relation-specific characteristics, prices depend on both upstream and downstream concentration and on the structure of trading links. The requirements necessary for Walrasian prices are stronger than usually believed.
Subjects: 
Bilageral Oligopoly
Bargaining
Intermediate Goods
Decentralized Trade
Walrasian Outcome
JEL: 
C70
D20
D40
L10
L40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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