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makers’, understanding of the final stage of the procedure – bargaining in the Conciliation Committee – is crucial. Here, EP … bargaining theory to predict inter-institutional agreements in the Conciliation Committee, it turns out that although …
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indices, both institutions are assumed to act strategically. Predicted bargaining outcomes of the crucial Conciliation stage …
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Traditional power indices ignore preferences and strategic interaction. Equilibrium analysis of particular non-cooperative decision procedures is unsuitable for normative analysis and assumes typically unavailable information. These points drive a lingering debate about the right approach to...
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Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can and should do with respect to the business cycle....
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constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers interact with a lobby through a bargaining process and with voters by means of … elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …
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We experimentally investigate a bargaining environment in which players negotiate over a fixed payment to one player …. Moreover, bargaining frictions increase as risk increases, and we document more frequent disagreements as risk increases. When … bargaining models require some separation between the determinants of bargaining power and fair compensation for risk exposure. …
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show that a profit tax and a transaction tax have opposite implications for equilibrium outcome in bargaining. A marginal …
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additional bargaining power. Negotiating as a group may also cause more inefficiencies due to bargaining failure, and this may …
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In a recent paper Konrad and Thum (2014) present a model that shows that unilateral pre-commitment reduces the likelihood of agreement in bilateral negotiations over the provision of a public good when parties have private information over their contribution costs. We test the model in a...
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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since … her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also …
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