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Does Resorting to Online Dispute Resolution Promote Agreements? Experimental Evidence

Gabuthy, Yannick; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Marchand, Nadège - HAL - 2008

This paper presents an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovativebargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising fromInternet-based transactions. The main result shows that the settlement rule tends to chillbargaining as it creates...

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Experimental comparison of compulsory and non compulsory arbitration mechanisms

Guerci, Eric; Thoron, Sylvie - HAL - 2011

Conciliation). The two mechanisms are also compared with a negotiation without arbitration. We observe that the ROC mechanism seems …We run a series of experiments to compare the well known arbitration scheme FOA (Final Offer Arbitration) with a new … arbitration scheme, non compulsory, we proposed in a companion paper (Tanimura and Thoron (2008)): ROC (Recursive Offer …

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Does Resorting to Online Dispute Resolution Promote Agreements ? Experimental Evidence

Gabuthy, Yannick; Marchand, Nadège - HAL - 2003

efficiency. This conclusion is consistent with the experimental results on arbitration and the well-known chilling effect …

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Online Dispute Resolution and Bargaining

Gabuthy, Yannick - HAL - 2003

Automated negotiation process seems to be a powerful mechanism to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. Automated negotiation is an online blind-bidding process in which an automated algorithm evaluates bids from the parties and settles the case if the offers are within a...

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Ownership structure and acquirers performance: Family vs. non-family firms

Bouzgarrou, Houssam; Navatte, Patrick - HAL - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of family control on French acquirers' performance.We consider a sample of 239 acquisitions undertaken by French listed companies between January 1997 and December 2006. Comparing both, short-termand long-termperformance,we find that family-controlled firms...

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Ambiguity, Agency Relationships and Adverse Selection

Mondello, Gérard - HAL - 2012

This paper applies to adverse selection theory the advances made in the field of ambiguity theory. It shows that i) a relevant second-best contract induces no production distortion considering the efficient agent as in the standard case. But the principal has to pay a higher information rent...

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE PRICING OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS (IPOS): DOES THE EXISTENCE OF A PROPERLY STRUCTURED BOARD MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE

Mnif, Anis - HAL - 2009

The purpose of this study is to introduce the board of directors as a signal of firm quality to abate information asymmetry. This study is based on agency theory and signaling theory to suggest that the existence of properly structured board at the time of the IPO may signal high firm quality to...

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Double-Sided Externalities and Vertical Contracting : Evidence from European Franchising Data

Chaudey, Magali; Fadairo, Muriel - HAL - 2009

This paper deals with contractual design and vertical relationships within a franchise chain, in the field of the literature on share contracts. Within a double-sided moral hazard, the contract sharing the profit generated by the vertical decentralized structure results from the necessity to...

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Somebody may scold you! A dictator experiment

Festré, Agnès; Pierre, Garrouste - HAL - 2015

In this contribution, we investigate the effects of observation-only and observation with feedback from a third-party, in a one-shot dictator game (DG). In addition to a baseline condition (DG), a third-party anonymous subject is introduced who either silently observes or observes and gives...

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On Doping and Recovery

Bervoets, Sebastian; Decreuse, Bruno; Faure, Mathieu - HAL - 2014

This paper provides a game-theoretical analysis of the use by athletes of performance-enhancing drugs. We focus on a two-player game where players are heterogeneous and performances are subject to uncertainty. While the standard setup assumes these drugs increase maximum performances, we assume...

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