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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive three different equity rules that can explain 43% of all offers. Our within-subject design further...
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Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Donni, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Consider a model of bargaining, in which two players, 1 and 2, share a pie of size y. The bargaining environment is described by a set of parameters ? that may affect agents’ preferences over the agreement sharing, the status quo outcome, or both. The outcomes (i.e., whether an agreement is...
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Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Pérez-Duarte, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
search-matching economies. Second, our results show that even though the traditional results of bargaining theory apply in …’s matching model of unemployment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt that has been made to implement and … systematically compare these solutions in search-matching economies. Our results are twofold. First from the theoretical …
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Bargaining and Specialization in Marriage
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
spousal matching into a household labor supply model in which (a) couples engage in home production, (b) there are potential …, matching in asymmetric marriage markets induces spousal cooperation and specialization. …
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Weiss, Yoram - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in … proportions and there is pure positive assortative matching in the marriage market. But if men and women have different market …
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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kübler, Dorothea; Dwenger, Nadja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822191
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Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?
Blázquez, Maite; Jansen, Marcel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs …
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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the …
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Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
Askitas, Nikos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two...
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Determinants and Policy Simulation of Firms Cooperation in Innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This research introduces an agent-based simulation model representing the dynamic processes of cooperative R&D in the manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 and captured in a multivariate probit...
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