We consider the collective incentives of buyers and sellers to form cartels in markets where trade is realized through decentralized pairwise bargaining. Cartels are coalitions of buyers or sellers that limit market participation and compensate inactive members for abstaining from trade. In a...

We study a model where a central player (the principal) bargains bilaterally with each of several players (the agents) to create and share the surplus of a coalitional game. It is known that, if the payments that were previously agreed (with each of the remaining agents) are renegotiated in case...

Telecommunications and ICT sector in general is one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the world. The state and level of the technological development of ICT infrastructure plays a very important and critical role in the growth and development of contemporary economies. Countries who do not...

Globale Warenketten (GWK) sind ein zentrales Merkmal der Epoche der Hyperglobalisierung. Leitunternehmen aus den ökonomischen Zentren organisieren globale Produktionsnetzwerke und Lieferanten aus dem globalen Süden produzieren gemäß deren Vorgaben. Die Vorteile daraus sind sehr ungleich...

Globale Warenketten (GWK) sind ein zentrales Merkmal der Epoche der Hyperglobalisierung. Leitunternehmen aus den ökonomischen Zentren organisieren globale Produktionsnetzwerke und Lieferanten aus dem globalen Süden produzieren gemäß deren Vorgaben. Die Vorteile daraus sind sehr ungleich...

In many intermediate goods markets buyers and sellers both have market power. Contracts are usually long-term and negotiated bilaterally, codifying many elements in addition to price. We model such bilateral oligopolies as a set of simultaneous Rubinstein-Ståhl bargainings over contracts...