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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...
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The Consequences of Failed Mediation in Civil Wars: Assessing the Sri Lankan Case
Destradi, Sandra; Vüllers, Johannes - 2012
While mediation efforts in violent conflicts often fail, the academic literature on mediation has long ignored both … under which the failure of mediation leads to an escalation of civil war. Based on the literature on bargaining, we argue … hardliners and moderates within those conflict parties, influence the likelihood of escalation after mediation failure. A …
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Communication in Cournot oligopoly
Goltsman, Maria; Pavlov, Gregory - 2012
We study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private information about their costs. We show that cheap talk between the firms cannot transmit any information. However, if the firms can communicate through a third party,...
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A strategic mediator who is biased into the same direction as the expert can improve information transmission
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Münster, Johannes - 2010
This note reconsiders communication between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker with a strategic mediator in a discrete Crawford and Sobel (1982) setting. We show that a strategic mediator may improve communication even when he is biased into the same direction as the expert. The...
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Amicable settlement of conflicts between agri-food producers and consumers
Alecu, Ioan Niculae; Ciocan, Felix-Dimitrie; Mihuţ, … - 2014
for conflicts, a stand out being the procedure of mediation, a procedure that is an alternative to the court of law. The … institution of mediation can be understood through an exhaustive presentation of the framework law in the field, of the related …
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The right of foreigners to purchase agricultural lands in Romania: Cross-border conflict mediation
Alecu, Ioan Niculae; Ciocan, Felix-Dimitrie; Badea, Adriana - 2014
Ever since becoming a member state of the European Union, Romania had to adapt its internal laws so that the citizens of other EU member states, or those of other entities for which this right is acknowledged by Law 17/2014, stateless persons residing in these states and legal persons...
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Entwicklung ökologischer Verantwortung in Mediationsverfahren
Fietkau, Hans-Joachim - In: Klaus Berger, Hermann Buschmeyer, Hans-Joachim Fietkau, …, (pp. 89-102). 1991
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Determinants of in-court settlements: Empirical evidence from a German trial court
Berlemann, Michael; Christmann, Robin - 2014
Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...
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Does the intensity in R&D generate start-up's growth?
González-Pernía, José L.; Vendrell-Herrero, Ferran - 2010
mediation of patents, on employment growth of new ventures). In doing so, we build on theoretical notions from the literature on … implication: R&D activities require the mediation role of non-tradable knowledge assets such as patents or other modes of …
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