closures affect the likelihood of incurring medical debt. Hospital closures can increase market concentration by removing a …. These findings suggest that the primary mechanism through which hospital closures affect medical debt is by reducing …This study presents new evidence on the potential detrimental effects of hospital closures. We examine how hospital …

-contractible but can be included in extended collective bargaining when workers participate in management, but employment is still … traditional bargaining over wages to extended (but still second-best) bargaining can generate a Pareto welfare improvement. -- job …-satisfaction; bargaining ; unemployment …

negotiations take place. We show that, in the absence of any distortion, sector-level bargaining ought to be less efficient than … bargaining taking place at the other levels. It follows that the introduction of labor market policies as a combination of … level at which bargaining takes place and the labor market performance is far more conditional than most studies acknowledge. …

. This paper studies the determination of these payments. We analyze the problem of joint bargaining over wages and severance … workers, in which we assume that workers may be unionized and that bargaining is over wages and severance pay. Bargaining …

International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail …

We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …), proposals are balanced only if both groups have veto power (iii) negotiations often fail if the decision environment gives …

A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour … is similar in both economies, the share of part-time work is larger. -- model of search and matching ; bargaining …

We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …