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There is strong evidence that people exploit their bargaining power in competitive markets but not in bilateral … bargaining situations. There is also strong evidence that people exploit free-riding opportunities in voluntary cooperation games …
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the seller’s relative bargaining power and bargaining share. This in turn fosters the seller’s incentives to invest even …
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We model takeovers as a bargaining process and explain termination fees for, both, the target and the acquirer, subject … to parties’ bargaining power and outside options. In equilibrium, termination fees are offered by firms with outside … options in exchange for a greater share of merger synergies. Termination fees decrease in firms’ bargaining power, and …
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I estimate a search-and-bargaining model of a decentralized market to quantify the effects of trading frictions on …
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This paper studies a dynamic bargaining model with informational externalities between bargaining pairs. Two principals …
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Two groups of voters of known sizes disagree over a single binary decision to be taken by simple majority. Individuals have different, privately observed intensities of preferences and before voting can buy or sell votes among themselves for money. We study the implication of such trading for...
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collaborate after non-contractible investments have been made. Most contributions apply the regular Nash bargaining solution. We … explore the implications of using the generalized Nash bargaining solution. A prominent finding regarding the suboptimality of … to give ownership to a party whose investments are less productive, provided that this party's ex-post bargaining power …
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the public project? In an incomplete contracting framework with split-the-difference bargaining, Besley and Ghatak (2001 …
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A buyer seeks to procure a good characterized by its price and its quality from suppliers who have private information about their cost structure (fixed cost + marginal cost of providing quality). We solve for the optimal buying procedure, i.e. the procedure that maximizes the buyer's expected...
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Sports organizations, Hollywood studios and TV channels grant satellite and cable networks exclusive rights to televise their matches, movies and media contents. Exclusive distribution prevents viewers from watching attractive programs, and reduces the TV-distributors incentives to compete in...
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