and retailers. Fluctuations in input costs (due to, e.g., exchange rate shocks) are transmitted first to the wholesale … price, and then to the retail price. The type of vertical agreement firms contract upon as well as their relative bargaining …

This paper explores the effect of bargaining in vertical relationships on the profitability of suppliers’ R … structure and neglect vertical interac-tions. Building on theoretical and empirical evidence about the effects of bargaining in … vertical relationships, the crucial determinants of a supplier’s bargaining power are identified as the market position and the …

convey more bargaining power to the merged entity than a horizontal merger to monopoly. In a bidding game for an exogenously …This paper analyzes vertical integration incentives in a bilaterally duopolistic industry where input market outcomes … are determined by bargaining. Vertical integration incentives are a combination of horizontal integration incentives up …

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 …

Agricultural technologies (new cultivars, inorganic fertilizers, soil- and water-conservation techniques) in Sub … decisions and division of income are made within the family in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a programming model to estimate the … agricultural technologies depends on the type of decision-making prevailing in the household. In contrast, household technologies …