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Transparency, Complementarity and Holdout

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  • Prabal Roy Chowdhury
  • Kunal Sengupta

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This article characterizes the conditions under which holdout (i.e. bargaining inefficiency) may, or may not be significant in a two-sided, one-buyer-many-seller model with complementarity. Our central result is that the severity of holdout (i.e. inefficiency) is critically dependent on three factors, (a) the transparency of the bargaining protocol, (b) the outside option of the buyer, and (c) the marginal contribution of the last seller. We find that although the accepted wisdom that holdout is severe, goes through whenever either the buyer has no outside option, or the bargaining protocol is secret, the holdout problem however is largely resolved whenever either the bargaining protocol is transparent and the buyer has a positive outside option, or if the marginal contribution of the last seller is not too large.

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Paper provided by Monash University, Department of Economics in its series Monash Economics Working Papers with number 49-10.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: May 2010
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Handle: RePEc:mos:moswps:2010-49

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Keywords: Multi-person bargaining; holdout; complementarity; efficiency; secret offers; public offers; Coase theorem; transparency.;

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  1. Prabal Roy Chowdhury, 2010. "Land acquisition: Political intervention, voice and fragmentation," Indian Statistical Institute, Planning Unit, New Delhi Discussion Papers 10-05, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India.

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