In a simple public good economy, we propose a natural bargaining procedure whose equilibria converge to Lindahl … allocations as the cost of bargaining vanishes. The procedure splits the decision over the allocation in a decision about …

, we use a negotiation game and the Nash bargaining solution as equilibrium. On the one hand, we remark that the argument …

-competitive phenomenon, I construct a bargaining model and estimate it empirically using a smaller but very detailed matched employer … bargaining power and with the amount of quasi-rents per worker available in the firms they organize. These predictions are … proxy for the unions' bargaining power. All the results remain valid when I control for the firm-level workers' average …

This paper presents the results of an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovative bargaining mechanism … are within a prescribed range. The observed individual behavior, based on 40 rounds of bargaining, is shown to be … adopting aggressive bargaining positions, which implies that the mechanism is not able to promote agreements and generate …