two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers search for jobs …

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

reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the spillover effects on technology and countries’ relative bargaining power … 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 …

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …