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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? Not necessarily. We consider a noncooperative model of the household where a gender wage gap...
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“Nash-in-Nash” Bargaining : A Microfoundation for Applied Work
Collard-Wexler, Allan - 2014
A “Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains” has become a workhorse bargaining model in applied analyses of bilateral oligopoly. This paper proposes a non-cooperative foundation for “Nash-in-Nash” bargaining that extends the Rubinstein (1982) alternating offers model to multiple upstream and...
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Multi-Issue Bargaining and Linked Agendas : Ricardo Revisited or No Pain No Gain
Horstmann, Ignatius J.; Markusen, James R.; Robles, Jack - 2021
There has been much discussion about what issues should be included in international 'trade' negotiations. Different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231858
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Tipping Climate Negotiations
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2011
Thinking about tipping provides a novel perspective on finding a way forward in climate negotiations and suggests an … argue that international climate negotiations may form such a game and so have a tipping set. This set is a small group of …
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Strategic Investment in a Debt Bargaining Framework
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country's perspective. The framework is one in which, if the debtor country is unable to meet debt obligations, a bargaining regime determines the amount of debt repayment. In the context of a two-country real trade model, debt...
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How Bargaining in Marriage Drives Marriage Market Equilibrium
Pollak, Robert A. - 2017
This paper investigates marriage market equilibrium under the assumption that Bargaining In Marriage (BIM) determines allocation within marriage. Prospective spouses, when they meet in the marriage market, are assumed to foresee the outcome of BIM and rank prospective spouses on the basis of the...
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Search Frictions and Market Power in Negotiated Price Markets
Allen, Jason - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a search and bargaining model designed to measure the welfare loss associated with frictions in oligopoly markets with negotiated prices. We use the model to quantify the consumer surplus loss induced by the presence of search frictions in the Canadian mortgage...
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Collective Action in an Asymmetric World
Chen, Cuicui - 2016
A central authority possessing tax and expenditure responsibilities can readily provide an efficient level of a public good. Absent a central authority, voluntary arrangements must replace coercive ones. Significant under-provision must be expected. International public goods are particularly...
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Sequential Bargaining in the Field : Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions
Backus, Matthew - 2018
We study patterns of behavior in bilateral bargaining situations using a rich, new dataset describing over 88 million listings from eBay's Best Offer platform, with back-and-forth bargaining occurring in over 25 million of these listings. We document patterns of behavior and relate them to...
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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy; Liu, Meng-Chun - 2021
This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …
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