been thought of as a substitute to pretrial bargaining and litigation, in fact, parties may be able to reach a settlement … bargaining. We develop a theoretical model of pre-arbitration bargaining that is able to identify the impact of the institutional … features on its success. A detailed data set from arbitration proceedings in Italy is analyzed. The exogenous heterogeneity in …

This paper reports laboratory experiments comparing arbitration behavior between and across two developed countries … that previous research designed to document differences in bargaining behavior across cultures paints an incomplete picture … of international comparisons by failing to consider bargaining interactions …

settlement is not better than a voluntary one, the evidence in support of the widespread belief is mixed. …

individual arbitration. This paper explores the tension between the pro-arbitration stance of the Supreme Court and the pro …-employee stance of the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB maintains that individual arbitration agreements violate Section 7 of … conflicts with the text of the Federal Arbitration Act, which requires courts to enforce arbitration agreements according to …