likely to close a deal than low performers. Effective mediators improve bargaining outcomes by helping buyers and sellers … negotiations, overcoming some of the inefficiency inherent in incomplete-information settings …

private. We implement different semi-structured bargaining protocols based on deferred acceptance, and we compare their … performance to the benchmark scenario of a sealed-bid auction. We show that bargaining dramatically improves efficiency, mainly to … the benefit of players rather than the silent auctioneer. A protocol of unconstrained simultaneous bargaining performs …

Despite extensive use of bargaining models in economics and despite Becker's insistence on the importance of altruism … in families, the theoretical literature on bargaining ignores altruism and assumes that everyone is an egoist. This paper … shows that incorporating altruism into cooperative bargaining models shrinks the set potential cooperative bargaining …

asymmetric information about the preferences of their members? How effective should we expect it to be as we increase the group …

information is symmetrically distributed and the scoring bias is set to offset the initial asymmetry between players … signals and (ii) endogenous information structure. We show that information favoritism can play a useful role in addressing …

We explore the labor market for Hispanic high school graduates in the United States by age using information from the …