Angesichts der Ausweitung des Leiharbeitseinsatzes, der zum Teil mit negativen Folgen für die Arbeitnehmer verbunden sein kann, suchen Gewerkschaften nach Moeglichkeiten zur ‚Humanisierung’ der Leiharbeit. Eine bislang wenig beachtete Alternative zur Leiharbeit stellt dabei die sog....

Recently, some industries have collectively agreed not to produce models that do not meet an energy efficiency (and hence an environmental) standard. This paper presents a simple model that can be used to examine a voluntary collective agreement to limit or completely eliminate the low...

This metadata relates to an article accepted for publication in Socio-Economic Review following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version - Socio-Economic Review, 2004,2 (1): 87-107 - is available online at: http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/archive/.Full-text of this article is...

This paper looks at implementation in economic environments when agents have perfect information about the state of the world, but cannot commit not to renegotiate bad outcomes or to collude against each other. If renegotiation satisfies a weak condition of disagreement point monotonicity, then...