Improving a company's bargaining position is often cited as a chief motivation to vertically integrate with suppliers … bargaining power against other suppliers in the production process. The cost of integration is a loss of exibility in choosing …

bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for maintenance in the case of a potential divorce prior to the law change …. Therefore, the present study helps to verify bargaining models by considering the 2008 policy change as a shift of spousal … bargaining power. Estimating difference-in-differences models I find that, indeed, wives who face a potential low alimony loss …

test the robustness of theoretical predictions. To illustrate this point we conduct a three-person bargaining experiment … assumptions, our less structured experiment provides new insights into how multilateral bargaining may play out in real world …