Intra-firm bargaining and learning in a market equilibrium

Mikhail Drugov

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: This paper introduces an agency relationship into a dynamic game with informational externalities. Two principals bargain with their respective agents about the production cost which is the private information of the agents and is correlated between them. We find that the agency relationship creates an incentive for simultaneous production, even if this involves an inefficient delay. As the commitment power of the principals decreases, this incentive becomes stronger. When principals compete, the effect of competition is decomposed into two parts. Inter-period competition (from past and future actions) pushes principals towards simultaneous actions, while intra-period competition (from concurrent actions) does the opposite.

Keywords: Information; Externalities; Delay; Bargaining; Adverse; selection; Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C78 D82 D83 L10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-03
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