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Publication Date:
January 2009
ISSN:
1935-1704
DOI:
10.2202/1935-1704.1383

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Cost Pass-Through under Delegation

Robert A. Ritz1

1Oxford University, robert.ritz@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Citation Information: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics. Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1935-1704, DOI: 10.2202/1935-1704.1383, January 2009

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2009-01-21

The rate of cost pass-through exceeds 50% under strategic delegation of decision-making to managers with sales revenue contracts—regardless of the number of firms in the industry and demand curvature. This contrasts sharply with profit-maximization, for which cost pass-through can take on any positive value. The key intuition is that firms under delegation act as if they faced more rivals than they actually do, thus pushing cost pass-through towards 100%. Cost pass-through with market share contracts is similarly bounded below, and this note also generalizes existing results on equilibrium characterization for this case.

Keywords: cost pass-through; excise taxation; executive compensation; market share; strategic delegation

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