2021
DOI: 10.1111/caje.12509
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Strategic profit‐sharing in a unionized differentiated goods oligopoly

Abstract: We study the incentives of firms and unions to bargain over a profit-sharing scheme in a unionized differentiated goods Cournot oligopoly. Under both firm-specific unions and a sector-wide union, universal profit-sharing arises in equilibrium as long as the bargaining power of the union(s) is not too high. Universal profit-sharing is more prevalent under coordinated than under decentralized bargaining. Under decentralized bargaining, a hybrid regime may arise in equilibrium in which ex ante symmetric firms use… Show more

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“…An interesting observation that we first make is that under both contractual forms, the upstream monopolist can benefit from a reduction in its bargaining power; hence, it may have incentives to partially give up its bargaining power. As suggested by Petrakis and Skartados [2021], the upstream monopolist could do so, for instance, through the delegation of negotiations to weaker agents. The intuition stems from the fact that a change in the allocation of the bargaining power between the vertically related firms affects both the contract terms and the market structure.…”
Section: General Demand Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An interesting observation that we first make is that under both contractual forms, the upstream monopolist can benefit from a reduction in its bargaining power; hence, it may have incentives to partially give up its bargaining power. As suggested by Petrakis and Skartados [2021], the upstream monopolist could do so, for instance, through the delegation of negotiations to weaker agents. The intuition stems from the fact that a change in the allocation of the bargaining power between the vertically related firms affects both the contract terms and the market structure.…”
Section: General Demand Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%