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Game Modelling the Tokyo Round of Tariff Negotiations

Baldwin, Robert E. - 1985

Using actual trade and tariff data for the United States and the European Community, this paper demonstrates how a trade negotiation such as the Tokyo Round, can be modelled as a game among countries attempting to minimize individual welfare loss functions. Once welfare functions are...

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Communication and Bargaining Breakdown : An Empirical Analysis

Backus, Matthew - 2020

Bargaining breakdown--whether as delay, conflict, or missing trade--plagues bargaining in environments with incomplete information. Can a bargaining environment that facilitates or restricts communication alleviate these costs? We exploit a unique opportunity to study this question using real...

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Strategic Investment in a Debt Bargaining Framework

Aizenman, Joshua - 1989

this framework, the paper shows that productive investment may increase or decrease the bargaining power of the debtor …

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Sovereign-debt Renegotiations : A Strategic Analysis

Fernandez, Raquel - 1988

The process of debt-rescheduling between a creditor and a sovereign (LDC) debtor is modeled as a noncooperative game built on a one-sector growth model. The creditor's threat to impose default penalties is ignored here as inherently incredible; instead, the debtor's motivation for repayment is to...

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Intermediaries in Bargaining : Evidence from Business-to-Business Used-Car Inventory Negotiations

Larsen, Bradley J.; Lu, Hengheng; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We analyze data on tens of thousands of alternating-offer, business-to-business negotiations in the wholesale used … mediating the negotiations. We find that who intermediates the negotiation matters: high-performing mediators are 22.03% more … negotiations, overcoming some of the inefficiency inherent in incomplete-information settings …

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Work Rules, Featherbedding, and Pareto-Optimal Union Management Bargaining

Johnson, George E. - 1986

the case of negotiations over work rules and wages than in both the cases of fully efficient bargaining and of bargaining …

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Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents : An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2005

In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New Jersey with data we have systematically collected over the 18-year life of the program. Covering the wages of police officers and firefighters, this system provides virtually a laboratory setting for...

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Negotiating Free Trade

Aghion, Philippe - 2004

We develop a dynamic bargaining model in which a leading country endogenously decides whether to sequentially negotiate free trade agreements with subsets of countries or engage in simultaneous multilateral bargaining with all countries at once. We show how the structure of coalition...

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Government Gains from Self-Restraint : A Bargaining Theory of Inefficient Redistribution

Drazen, Allan - 2004

existing models, neither side is assumed to have all the bargaining power. The government finds it optimal to constrain itself … use of the former if its bargaining power relative to the lobby is sufficiently low. Even if the lobby can bargain over …

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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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