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negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions …
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and show how the induced game can be used to explain certain features of the wage negotiations for which the conciliation …
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post. We show that this is achieved by bilateral negotiations but not by auctions. Negotiations strictly outperforms … if the buyer's bargaining position is sufficiently strong. Moreover, we show that negotiations provide stronger … use of negotiations as a procurement mechanism in private industry. …
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and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R …
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Negotiations frequently end in conflict after one party rejects a final offer. In a large-scale internet experiment we …
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This Paper analyses whether different emission trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China, that are most important in the climate negotiation...
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Which is the more profitable way to sell a company: a public auction or an optimally structured negotiation with a smaller number of bidders? We show that under standard assumptions the public auction is always preferable, even if it forfeits all the seller's negotiating power, including the...
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This Paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
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This Paper examines recent theoretical developments in the theory of coalition stability. It focuses on the relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure and the different assumptions on membership rules, coalition...
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International agreements to protect the global environment are typically difficult to reach. In principle they should be profitable for all players involved in the negotiation. Even when they are profitable, however, they are often unstable due to the incentive to free-ride (enjoying the clean...
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