Showing 1 - 10 of 110
I estimate a search-and-bargaining model of a decentralized market to quantify the effects of trading frictions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262889
A buyer seeks to procure a good characterized by its price and its quality from suppliers who have private information about their cost structure (fixed cost + marginal cost of providing quality). We solve for the optimal buying mechanism, i.e. the procedure that maximizes the buyer’s expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123964
We study bargaining at the end of high-stakes poker tournaments, in which participants often negotiate a division of … the prize money rather than bear the risk of playing the game until the end. This setting is ideal for studying bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136675
the seller’s relative bargaining power and bargaining share. This in turn fosters the seller’s incentives to invest even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497871
We model takeovers as a bargaining process and explain termination fees for, both, the target and the acquirer, subject … to parties’ bargaining power and outside options. In equilibrium, termination fees are offered by firms with outside … options in exchange for a greater share of merger synergies. Termination fees decrease in firms’ bargaining power, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498188
There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral … bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504682
This Paper analyses bargaining between the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114474
This paper studies a dynamic bargaining model with informational externalities between bargaining pairs. Two principals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083946
Two groups of voters of known sizes disagree over a single binary decision to be taken by simple majority. Individuals have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for money. We study the implication of such trading for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084134
collaborate after non-contractible investments have been made. Most contributions apply the regular Nash bargaining solution. We … explore the implications of using the generalized Nash bargaining solution. A prominent finding regarding the suboptimality of … to give ownership to a party whose investments are less productive, provided that this party's ex-post bargaining power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084329