In bargaining between a bureau and the legislature over a budget, the

In bargaining between a bureau and the legislature over a budget, the legislature decides to purchase a certain amount of output at certain price and negotiates both simultaneously. This gives the bureau the opportunity to _____.

a. minimize their effort
b. extract all the legislature’s consumer surplus from the bureau’s output
c. maximize the bureau’s profits
d. maximize the budget’s producer surplus by extracting from the legislature large rents

ANSWER

b