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This report introduces a novel approach to performing inference and learning in Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN). The traditional approach to inference and learning in DBNs involves conditioning on one or more finite-length observation sequences. In this report, we consider conditioning on what...
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In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations, and examines how productivity and training … affect wages. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiating partners are specified a priori, and thus it is … impossible to address the question of how they achieve and retain their negotiating positions, on which their bargaining power is …
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the usefulness of non-cooperative bargaining theory for the analysis of … multilateral, multiple issues, non-cooperative bargaining model of water allocation in the Piave River Basin, in the North East of … problem and conduct comparative static analyses to assess sources of bargaining power. Finally, we explore the implications of …
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This thesis consists of three related essays, which develop the framework to study multilateral bargaining and … in the Eurasian gas supply chain. The first analytical part of the thesis concerns multilateral bargaining Russia and … to create countervailing power. The second part of the thesis deals with multilateral bargaining and coalition formation …
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This paper assesses empirically the hypotheses by Bental and Demougin (2010) that innovations in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) reduce the labor share in OECD countries by improving the monitoring technology. In a first step, I show that data trends for the labor share, wages in...
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We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler...
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"This paper provides an experimental analysis of bargaining under imperfect information, molded by the circumstances …) link between the unitization field data, and the highly developed experimental bargaining work of Roth and Malouf, and Roth …
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bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least … particular, improvements in the community's bargaining power vis-a-vis the firm are likely to increase resource extraction and …
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"One of the successes in contemporary social science is the development and proliferation of game theory. For a wide range of phenomena, game theory produces enormous insight into the strategic interaction of individuals. Its greatest power lies with predicting the behavior of large groups --...
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