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The main aim of this paper is to derive properties of an optimal compensation scheme for consumer cooperatives (Coops) in situations of strategic interaction with profit- maximizing firms (PMFs). Our model provides a reason why Coops are less prone than PMFs to pay variable bonuses to their managers. We show that this occurs under price competition when in equilibrium the Coop prefers to pay a straight salary to its manager whereas the profit-maximizing rival adopts a variable, high-powered incentive scheme. The main rationale is that, due to consumers' preferences, a Coop is per se highly expansionary in term of output and, therefore, does not need to provide strong strategic incentives to their managers to expand output aggressively by undercutting its rival.

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Paper provided by CREI Università degli Studi Roma Tre in its series Working Papers with number 0512.

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Length: 20 pages
Date of creation: 2012
Date of revision: 2012
Handle: RePEc:rcr:wpaper:05_12

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Keywords: Consumer Cooperatives; Strategic Incentives; Price Competition; Oligopoly.;

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• C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
• C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
• D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
• D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

• NEP-ALL-2012-07-23 (All new papers)
• NEP-BEC-2012-07-23 (Business Economics)
• NEP-CTA-2012-07-23 (Contract Theory & Applications)
• NEP-HRM-2012-07-23 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)

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