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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …
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Two-tier bargaining structures, in which plant-level wage negotiations supplement industry-level wage setting, are … of firms to collective bargaining, and do not seem to improve either microeconomic and macroeconomic adjustment to shocks …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade … at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … effects of bargaining power on aggregate outcomes. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity within sellers. Sellers who …
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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 …
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bankruptcy problem. We examine both people's impartial normative evaluations as well as their actual negotiation behavior in a … bargaining with claims environment. We measure people's judgments on the normative attractiveness of solution concepts with the … help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …
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International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail …
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Is the impact of women's bargaining power on the welfare of the household always positive? We address this question by … developing a novel experimental measure of bargaining power over family expenditures in Ivory Coast and studying its determinants … revealed preferences with respect to educational expenditures. The bargaining power of the woman over the three categories of …
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Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...
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. 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 …
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Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater –...
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