We analyze how institutions shape communication incentives in a Romer-Rosenthal agenda-setting model with private information and private values. An agenda setter faces multiple voters who are privately informed about their ideal points in a one-dimensional policy space. We consider two...

This paper studies the implications of a segmented labor market with efficient wage-employment bargaining on the internal labor market and a competitive external labor market on the temporary equilibrium of a closed monetary macroeconomy of the AS-AD type with government activity, fiat money,...

This paper experimentally tests the relation between subjects' competitiveness and bargaining behavior. Bargaining is investigated in a demand-ultimatum game, where the responder can request a share of the pie from the proposer. The results show that highly competitive proposers earn less, since...