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This Paper analyses bargaining between the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers (CM) in the …
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The decision-making rules of the European Union (EU) are defined in an incomplete contract signed by 15 national governments. The design of the contract defines the set of policy issues where it applies – in decision-making rules i.e. the majority rules and the division of powers among the...
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We introduce endogenous political parties into the Hotelling-Downs voting framework to model the selection of candidates. First, activists choose which party to join, if at all. Second, party members select a champion for the general election. Third, the electorate median voter determines the...
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dollar. In this paper a bargaining approach is used to explain both the settlement and the delay. We conclude that the agreed … swap broadly corresponds to a bargaining outcome where the Argentine government had 'first mover' advantage, and that a … promoting 'good faith' bargaining. …
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, parliamentary composition, coalition formation, and bargaining are endogenous. We compare this constitution to delegation of …
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This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the head from the household, mainly due to death or divorce, affects children’s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household-level fixed effects to deal with the fact that...
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We consider a bargaining model of the interaction between a government and interest groups in which, unlike existing … models, neither side is assumed to have all the bargaining power. The government will then find it optimal to constrain … itself in the use of transfer policies to improve its bargaining position. In a model of redistribution to lobbies, the …
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We consider a competitive search model where firms with vacancies choose between posting a wage ex-ante and bargaining …-up problem associated with bargaining but are incomplete since they cannot be contingent on worker qualifications. In contrast … the hold-up problem is mild and workers' heterogeneity is large, firms opt for bargaining. Yet equilibria with bargaining …
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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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