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This paper presents an analysis of general time preferences in the canonical Rubinstein (1982) model of bargaining …
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I revisit the Rubinstein (1982) model for the classic problem of price hag- gling and show that bargaining can become a … of fixed bargaining costs). Augmenting the protocol with unilateral exit options for responding bargainers generally …
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Matching markets can be unstable when individuals prefer to be matched to a partner who also wants to be matched with them. Through a pre-registered and theory-guided laboratory experiment, we provide evidence that such reciprocal preferences exist, significantly decrease stability in matching...
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Agents with reciprocal preferences prefer to be matched to a partner who also likes to collaborate with them. In this paper, we introduce and formalize reciprocal preferences, apply them to matching markets, and analyze the implications for mechanism design. Formally, the preferences of an agent...
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bargaining models between unions and firms. While the Nash bargaining solution is unaffected by minimum wages below initially … bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages - and be harmful to employment - when bargaining follows the …
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Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct … the double principal-agent relationship predicts the continuation of conflict and thus the emergence of peace. …
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conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to …, the world’s largest hosting platform for software projects, I estimate the causal impacts of a political conflict that … burst out between Russia and Ukraine in 2014. I find that the conflict strongly reduced online cooperation between Russian …
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Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen significantly during the last decade, no study has, to the best of my knowledge, examined how these conflicts influence distrust of members of the Fulani ethnic group and the...
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suggest that bargaining failure between original and follow-on innovators is not limited to environments commonly associated …
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We investigate a random proposer bargaining game with a dead line. A bounded time interval is divided into bargaining … periods of equal length and we study the limit of the subgame perfect equilibrium outcome as the number of bargaining periods …
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