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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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Trade and Environment : Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations
Abrego, Lisandro; Perroni, Carlo; Whalley, John; Wigle, … - 2022
negotiations, comparing developed-developing country bargaining only on trade policy with joint bargaining on both trade and …
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The Impact of Collective Bargaining : Can the New Facts Be Explained by Monopoly Unionism?
Freeman, Richard B.; Medoff, James L. - 2021
In this paper we focus our attention on the question of whether union/nonunion differences in nonwage outcomes can, in fact, be explained in terms of standard price-theoretic responses to real wage effects, as opposed to the real effect of unionism on economic behavior. We reach three basic...
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Wage Bargaining, Labor Turnover, and the Business Cycle : a Model with Asymmetric Information
Perry, Motty; Solon, Gary - 2021
This paper presents a wage bargaining model in which the employer and employee are each uncertain about the other's reservation wage. Under specified circumstances, the model's equilibrium is shown to involve unilateral wage setting and inefficient labor turnover. In addition, aggregate demand...
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Evidence on the Determinants of the Choice between Wage Posting and Wage Bargaining
Hall, Robert E. - 2010
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others face a posted wage as a take-it-or-leave-it opportunity. Theories of wage formation point to substantial differences in labor-market equilibrium between bargained and posted wages. We surveyed a representative sample...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992148
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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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