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Helpman, Elhanan; Persson, Torsten - 2022

We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems … bargaining. Second, we show that in congressional systems the resulting policies are strongly skewed in favor of the agenda …

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Transparency and Negotiated Prices : The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining

Grennan, Matthew - 2016

Using a detailed dataset of hospitals' purchase orders, we find that information on purchasing by peer hospitals leads to reductions in the prices hospitals negotiate for supplies. Identification is based on staggered access to information across hospitals over time. Within coronary stents,...

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Why Don't Lenders Renegotiate More Home Mortgages? Redefaults, Self-Cures and Securitization

Adelino, Manuel - 2015

We document the fact that servicers have been reluctant to renegotiate mortgages since the foreclosure crisis started in 2007, having performed payment reducing modifications on only about 3 percent of seriously delinquent loans. We show that this reluctance does not result from securization:...

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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Lovenheim, Michael F. - 2018

Teacher collective bargaining is a highly debated feature of the education system in the US. This paper presents the … first analysis of the effect of teacher collective bargaining laws on long-run labor market and educational attainment … bargaining laws worsens the future labor market outcomes of men: in the first 10 years after passage of a duty-to-bargain law …

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Information and Bargaining Through Agents : Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labor Courts

Sadka, Joyce - 2018

Well-functioning courts are essential for the health of both financial and real economies. Courts function poorly in most lower-income countries, but the root causes of poor performance are not well understood. We use a field experiment with ongoing cases to analyze sources of dysfunction in...

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Relinquishing Riches : Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing

Covert, Thomas R. - 2019

. These results suggest large potential gains from employing centralized, formal mechanisms in markets that traditionally …

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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union

Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021

This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully characterized as the outcome of a process by which...

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Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This study uses establishment level data to examine the effect of unionism on the wage structure within establishments. The major finding is that unionism substantively reduces within-establishment dispersion of wages, in part through explicit wage practices, such as single rate or automatic...

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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 outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...

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The Self-Enforcing Provisions of Oil and Gas Unit Operating Agreements : Theory and Evidence

Smith, James L.; Libecap, Gary D. - 2021

importance of incentive-compatibility and self-enforcement and the bargaining problems faced in achieving viable, long …

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