post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer’s bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry. …

and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R …

We compare two commonly used mechanisms in procurement: auctions and negotiations. The execution of the procurement …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of … positive and sizable effect on fertility decisions of Italian working women. This result is robust to a number of checks …

show that this time consistency problem leads to a systematic downward bias in fertility choices. By keeping fertility low …, families try to mitigate the ex-ante undesired shift in the power balance. This bias in fertility choices provides scope for … overcome the fertility bias. …