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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game : evidence from long run play
Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013
in wage disputes that were settled by final-offer arbitration in New Jersey. The paper also reports briefly on similar … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. -- prisoner's dilemma ; arbitration …
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Unions as insurance : employer-worker risk sharing and workers' outcomes during COVID-19
Braakmann, Nils; Hirsch, Boris - 2023
implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500674
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International integration, risk and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M. - 2002
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these...
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Arbitration and mediation : an economic perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412055
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A breath of fresh air: raising awareness for clean fuel adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E. - 2020
them, or raise health awareness along with providing information on the universal cash-back LPG subsidy program or a … financial constraints and the importance of the design of public subsidy schemes in inducing regular usage of clean fuels. …
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Timing the transfer : liquidity constraints and the transition to clean fuels
Afridi, Farzana; Barnwal, Prabhat; Sarkar, Shreya - 2024
We study the role of the administrative design of energy subsidy programs aimed at encouraging households' transition … to cleaner energy sources. Our context is the universal subsidy for clean cooking gas (LPG) in India - households first … purchase LPG at the market price (over-the-counter) and then receive a "cash-back" subsidy in their bank account. The subsidy …
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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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Lab labor : what can labor economists learn from the lab?
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2010
understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …
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Losers and losers : some demographics of medical malpractice tort reforms
Friedson, Andrew I.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2011
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings of note include that, unlike previously assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort...
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