Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161636 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 195
Version Description: 
May 2017
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effects of changes in retail market concentration when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between upstream and downstream firms which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether countervailing buyer power arises, in the form of lower negotiated prices following greater concentration downstream, depends on the pass-through rate of input prices to retail prices. Countervailing buyer power arises in equilibrium for a broad class of demand forms, and its magnitude depends on the degree of product differentiation. However, it generally does not translate into lower retail prices because of heightened market power at the retail level. The demand systems commonly used in the literature impose strong restrictions on the results.
Subjects: 
Countervailing buyer power
Bilateral oligopoly
Vertical relations
Bargaining
Pass-through
Market concentration
Mergers
Entry
Exit
JEL: 
C78
D43
L13
L14
L81
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-194-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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