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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World

Chen, Cuicui - 2016

A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...

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Agenda-Setter Power Dynamics : Learning in Multi-Issue Bargaining

Bowen, Renee - 2020

We study a dynamic bargaining model between a fixed agenda-setter and responder over successive issues. If the responder rejects the setter's proposal, the setter can attempt to assert her will to implement her ideal and will succeed with a probability that depends on her "personal power". The...

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Bargaining Power in Marriage : Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

Pollak, Robert A. - 2005

What determines bargaining power in marriage? This paper argues that wage rates, not earnings, determine well-being at the threat point and, hence, determine bargaining power. Observed earnings at the bargaining equilibrium may differ from earnings at the threat point because hours allocated to...

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Durability, Deadline, and Election Effects in Bargaining

Simsek, Alp - 2016

political negotiations, political capital) as the extent to which a party's current bargaining power translates into its … bargaining delays, as well as the finer bargaining details in political negotiations. Optimistic players delay the agreement if … effects, by which upcoming deadlines or elections lead to ex-ante gridlock. In political negotiations, political capital is …

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Intermediaries in Bargaining : Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations

Larsen, Bradley J.; Lu, Hengheng; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used … mediating the negotiations. We find that who intermediates the negotiation matters: high-performing mediators are 22.03% more … negotiations, overcoming some of the inefficiency inherent in incomplete-information settings …

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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining

Johnson, George E. - 1986

the case of negotiations over work rules and wages than in both the cases of fully efficient bargaining and of bargaining …

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Game Modelling the Tokyo Round of Tariff Negotiations

Baldwin, Robert E. - 1985

Using actual trade and tariff data for the United States and the European Community, this paper demonstrates how a trade negotiation such as the Tokyo Round, can be modelled as a game among countries attempting to minimize individual welfare loss functions. Once welfare functions are...

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Communication and Bargaining Breakdown : An Empirical Analysis

Backus, Matthew - 2020

Bargaining breakdown--whether as delay, conflict, or missing trade--plagues bargaining in environments with incomplete information. Can a bargaining environment that facilitates or restricts communication alleviate these costs? We exploit a unique opportunity to study this question using real...

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Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents : An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2005

In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have systematically collected over the 18-year life of the program. Covering the wages of police officers and firefighters, this system provides virtually a laboratory setting for...

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Negotiating Free Trade

Aghion, Philippe - 2004

We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous multilateral bargaining with all countries at once. We show how the structure of coalition...

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