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ESOP fables : the impact of employee stock ownership plans on labor disputes

Cramton, Peter C. (contributor); Mehran, Hamid (contributor) - 2008

nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining or … involve a strike. We examine these predictions using U.S. bargaining data from 1970 to 1995. The data suggest that ESOPs do … increase the efficiency of labor negotiations by shifting the composition of disputes away from costly strikes. Consistent with …

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The choice of the agenda in labor negotiations : efficiency and behavioral considerations

Königstein, Manfred (contributor); … - 2005

The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports … an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …

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Revisiting Gender Differences in Ultimatum Bargaining : Experimental Evidence from the US and China

Li, Shuwen - 2018

We report results from a replication of Solnick (2001), which finds using an ultimatum game that, in relation to males, more is demanded from female proposers and less is offered to female responders. We conduct Solnick's (2001) game using participants from a large US university and a large...

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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009

constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers interact with a lobby through a bargaining process and with voters by means of … elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining … ; bargaining ; elections …

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Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments : Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access

Prager, Elena; Tilipman, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

equilibrium prices, network formation, and hospital exit. We estimate a structural model of insurer-hospital bargaining that …

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Settlement delays in the money market

Bartolini, Leonardo (contributor); … - 2008

We track 38,000 money market trades from execution to delivery and return to provide a first empirical analysis of settlement delays in financial markets. In line with predictions from recent models showing that financial claims are settled strategically, we document a tendency by lenders to...

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Collective initial endowments

Takamiya, Koji (contributor) - 2006

This paper studies allocation correspondences in the house allocation problems with collective initial endowments. We examine the implications of two axioms, namely “consistency” and “unanimity.” Consistency requires the allocation correspondence be invariant under reductions of...

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Performance pay and the erosion of worker cooperation : field experimental evidence

Burks, Stephen V. (contributor); … - 2006

We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...

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Changes in Marital Sorting : Theory and Evidence from the US

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions of the characteristic along which sorting takes...

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Stability and incentives for college admissions with budget constraints

Abizada, Azar - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 11 (2016) 2, pp. 735-756

We study two-sided matching where one side (colleges) can make monetary transfers (offer stipends) to the other (students). Colleges have fixed budgets and strict preferences over sets of students. One different feature of our model is that colleges value money only to the extent that it allows...

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