This paper presents the results of an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovative bargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising from Internet-based transactions. Automated negotiation is an online sealed-bid process in which an automated...

A smart contract can be defined as a computer program, stored on a blockchain, which allows a transaction or an agreement-defined ex-ante-to be self-executed when some conditions are met, and without the need for a central authority to enforce it. Even if this new technology is very promising,...

[fre] Cet article présente une revue de la littérature consacrée à l'étude des effets de la protection de l'emploi, relative notamment au licenciement individuel, sur le comportement des agents économiques impliqués dans la relation de travail. Ces analyses montrent que les règles...

Nous présentons les principaux résultats obtenus à partir des premières applications de la méthode expérimentale à l'analyse économique du droit. Nous commençons par recenser les travaux qui évaluent la pertinence empirique du monde sans friction décrit par le théorème de Coase,...

When two parties are embedded in a dispute, they generally have the possibility to bargain before an external solution is imposed to them, notably through alternative dispute resolution. This bargaining phase may either result from a choice of disputants to negotiate or be imposed by laws or...

Le développement très important de l'Internet et du commerce électronique s'est accompagné de l'émergence de modes électroniques de résolution des litiges. L'objectif du article est d'évaluer expérimentalement l'efficacité économique d'une procédure novatrice, la négociation...

This paper presents an experiment performed to test the properties of an innovativebargaining mechanism (called automated negotiation) used to resolve disputes arising fromInternet-based transactions. The main result shows that the settlement rule tends to chillbargaining as it creates...

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of final-offer arbitration in which disputants may be represented by lawyers who can be paid by flat, contingent, or conditional fees. We derive the equilibrium lawyers' efforts to defend their clients and the equilibrium parties' proposals made to the...