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We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … potential willingness of the stakeholder to make contributions to promote agreement may be the source of severe inefficiency …. However, and more surprisingly, for a wide range of parameter values this outcome is better for the stakeholder than if he …
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The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports … an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …
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In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only in case of separation. We show that inefficient separation may occur in equilibrium even under consensual divorce law. This provides theoretical support for the view that...
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effects on strike incidence. This ambiguity may explain why higher strike costs need not always lead to fewer strikes, and … incidence data. Although couched in terms of strikes, the results are equally applicable to other negotiation situations. …
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We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …
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Can households make efficient choices? The fact that cohabitation and marriage are partnerships for joint production and consumption imply that their gains are highest when household members cooperate. At the same time, empirical findings suggest that spousal specialization and labor force...
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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …
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We investigate experimentally how the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and bargaining outcomes of women …. Female participants negotiate in an unstructured bilateral bargaining game with asymmetric information about the allocation … of a surplus ('pie size'). We find that the menstrual cycle affects bargaining behavior and that the effects depend on …
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function can be explained by Nash bargaining between workers and employers. Under fairly mild assumptions, Nash bargaining … exceed the wage reward. This paper reviews the established empirical regularities and then provides Nash bargaining results … that explain these regularities. -- overeducation ; undereducation ; Nash bargaining ; qualitative mismatches ; Mincer …
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Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is based on prior performance will affect prior performance. We test this hypothesis in a lab...
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