TY - UNPB
T1 - Coordination, Rent-Seeking and Control
AU - Baliga, Bantwal Sandeep
AU - Sjöström, Tomas
PY - 2013/4/11
Y1 - 2013/4/11
N2 - Two agents want to coordinate their decisions but may also try to extract rents from each other. Decsions are negotiated at the interim stage, when the agents have private information. The agent who owns an asset has the right to make a unilateral decision regarding this asset, so negotiations must satisfy a participation constraint. We compare nonintegration, where each agent owns one asset, with integration, where one agent owns both assets. We derive simple necessary and sufficient conditions for the first best to be implemented with integration or nonintegration. These conditions can never be satisfied simultaneously, so integration sometimes dominates nonintegration and vice versa.
AB - Two agents want to coordinate their decisions but may also try to extract rents from each other. Decsions are negotiated at the interim stage, when the agents have private information. The agent who owns an asset has the right to make a unilateral decision regarding this asset, so negotiations must satisfy a participation constraint. We compare nonintegration, where each agent owns one asset, with integration, where one agent owns both assets. We derive simple necessary and sufficient conditions for the first best to be implemented with integration or nonintegration. These conditions can never be satisfied simultaneously, so integration sometimes dominates nonintegration and vice versa.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Coordination, Rent-Seeking and Control
ER -