Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148208 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 981
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We consider a downstream oligopoly model with one dominant and several fringe retailers, who purchase a manufacturing product from a monopoly supplier. We then examine how the supplier's outside option influences the relation between the dominant retailer's bargaining power and the equilibrium retail price. If the market demand shrinks due to a breakdown of bargaining between the supplier and the dominant retailer, who works as a sales promoter for the product, there is a negative relation between the bargaining power and the retail price. Furthermore, retailers' efficiency improvements increase the retail price if the dominant retailer's bargaining power is strong.
Subjects: 
Countervailing power
Buyer power
Dominant retailer
Two-part tariff
JEL: 
L13
D43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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