Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210462 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 329
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
We re-consider the bilateral bargaining problem of a multi-product, manufacturer-retailer trading relationship. O'Brien and Shaffer (Rand JE 35:573-598, 2005) have shown that the unbundling of contracts leads to downward distorted production levels if seller power is strong, while otherwise the joint profit maximizing quantities are contracted (which is also always the case when bundling contracts are feasible). We show that the unbundling of contracts also leads to downward distorted output levels when the buyer firm has sufficient (Nash) bargaining power (i.e., buyer power). Our result is driven by cost substitutability (diseconomies of scope).
Subjects: 
Vertical Restraints
Bundling
Buyer Power
JEL: 
L13
L41
K21
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-328-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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