This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of … methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field … experiments; and what are the main design issues? We then summarize the substantive contributions of laboratory experiments to our …

This chapter surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of … methodological issues: when (and why) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field … experiments; and what are the main design issues? We then summarize the substantive contributions of laboratory experiments to our …

This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of … methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do laboratory experiments compare to field … experiments; and what are the main design issues? We then summarize the substantive contributions of laboratory experiments to our …

. Second, we model the interaction between hospitals and insurers in the context of a generalized bargaining model similar to … (negative) impact on the hospital price–cost margin. In the bargaining model, we find a significant negative effect of insurer …

' bargaining power converges. Our findings imply that raising the bargaining power of the less powerful party may increase welfare …

bargaining” — a mode of reasoning that joins elements of individualistic and collaborative reasoning — and apply it to five games … representing broad classes of (one-shot and dynamic) interactions. The virtual bargaining account offers a unified framework to …

This article surveys the theoretical literature on legislative bargaining with endogenous status-quo. These are the … legislative bargaining situations in which in each period a new policy is decided and the policy implemented in the event of no … agreement is endogenously determined by the outcome of bargaining in the previous period. After describing a general framework …

Pattern bargaining is a negotiating strategy that is often employed by industry-wide unions in oligopolistic industries … to set wages. The conventional wisdom is that pattern bargaining "takes labor out of competition" and therefore softens … bargaining between the union and firms, resulting in higher industry wide wages. However, this does not explain why firms agree …