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Negotiations of Oil and Gas Auxiliary Lease Clauses : Evidence from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale

Harleman, Max; Manohar, Pramod; Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Oil and gas lease negotiations provide mineral owners the opportunity to negotiate for both compensation and auxiliary …

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The Effect of Offer-of-Settlement Rules on the Terms of Settlement

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

Under an offer of settlement' rule, a party to a lawsuit may make a special offer to settle with the other party, such that if the other party rejects this offer, then this offer (unlike an ordinary offer) becomes part of the record in the case and may affect the allocation of litigation costs....

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

Libecap, Gary D. - 1999

This paper extends the existing theory and empirical investigation of unitization contracts. It highlights the importance of incentive-compatibility and self-enforcement and the bargaining problems faced in achieving viable, long-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization...

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Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining

Helpman, Elhanan - 1998

We examine the effects of the interaction between lobbying and legislative bargaining on policy formation. Two systems are considered: a US-style congressional system and a European-style parliamentary system. First, we show that the policies generated are not intermediate between policies that...

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The Cost of Diversity : The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

Rajan, Raghuram - 1998

In a simple model of capital budgeting in a diversified firm where headquarters has limited power, we show that funds are allocated towards the most inefficient divisions. The distortion is greater the more diverse are the investment opportunities of the firm's divisions. We test these...

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Trade and Environment : Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations

Abrego, Lisandro - 1997

negotiations, comparing developed-developing country bargaining only on trade policy with joint bargaining on both trade and …

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Default and Renegotiation : A Dynamic Model of Debt

Hart, Oliver - 1997

We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt...

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Threats without Binding Commitment

Shavell, Steven - 1996

This paper explores the power of threats in the absence of binding commitment. The threatener cannot commit to carrying out the threat if the victim refuses payment, and cannot commit to not carrying out the threat if payment is made. If exercising the threat is costly to the threatener, then...

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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks

Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995

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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Auctions vs. Negotiations

Bulow, Jeremy - 1994

Which is the more profitable way to sell a company: a public auction or an optimally structured negotiation with a smaller number of bidders? We show that under standard assumptions the public auction is always preferable, even if it forfeits all the seller's negotiating power, including the...

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