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Tax Rate Harmonization, Renegotiation and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction

Eggert, Wolfgang - 2011

This paper analyzes a model of corporate tax competition with repeated interaction and with strategic use of profit shifting within multinationals. We show that international tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the degree of asymmetry in terms of productivity differences between...

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Bargaining with Two-Person-Groups - On the Insignificance of the Patient Partner

Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2013

Although many real bargaining situations involve more than two people, much of the theoretical and experimental research concentrates on the two player situation. We study the simplest possible extension: four people (two two-person groups) of different patience bargain with each other....

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Centralised Labour Market Negotiations

Müller, Julia - 2013

This paper contributes to the analysis of central vs. decentral (firm-level) labour market negotiations. We argue that … during negotiations on a central scale employers and employees plausibly take output market effects into account, while they … behave competitively during firm-level negotiations. Assuming that in both cases the labour market conflict is settled …

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Voice and Bargaining Power

Gersbach, Hans - 2006

We propose a formal concept of the power of voice in the context of a simple model where individuals form groups and trade in competitive markets. Individuals use outside options in two different ways. Actual outside options reflect the possibility to exit or to join other existing groups....

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Auctions vs. Negotiations : The Effects of Inefficient Renegotiation

Herweg, Fabian - 2015

post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer's bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry …

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Bargaining with a Residual Claimant : An Experimental Study

Embrey, Matthew - 2014

We experimentally investigate a bargaining environment in which players negotiate over a fixed payment to one player, while the other player receives the residual from a random pie realization after subtracting the fixed payment. Contrary to the intuition that risk exposure is detrimental, we...

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Hidden Persuaders : Do Small Gifts Lubricate Business Negotiations?

Maréchal, Michel André; Thöni, Christian - 2021

products company to study the influence of small gifts on the outcome of business negotiations. We find that small gifts matter … of their negotiations. However, we also find that small gifts tend to be counterproductive when purchasing and sales …

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Partial Harmonization of Corporate Taxes in an Asymmetric Repeated Game Setting

Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2010

This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three heterogenous countries with respect to their capital endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the...

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Partial Tax Coordination in a Repeated Game Setting

Itaya, Jun-ichi - 2010

This paper addresses the problem of partial tax coordination among regional or national sovereign governments in a repeated game setting. We show that partial tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the number of regions in a coalition subgroup is smaller and the number of existing regions...

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Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Threat-Point Effect

Itoh, Hideshi - 2011

Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...

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