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

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

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. …

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …