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We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options …
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We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all …
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In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength … rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple take-it-or-leave bargaining experiment where the …
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We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but significant externalities in messenger behavior nonetheless give their on-the-job interactions the...
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The "joint costs" model states that the incentive to strike is inversely related to the total costs associated with workers' and firms' strike activities. Not only has this model been tested with mixed results, but also the joint costs model is problematic in explaining several stylized facts in...
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participants show a preference for decision authority and choose single-issue bargaining in most cases even though efficiency is …The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports …
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function can be explained by Nash bargaining between workers and employers. Under fairly mild assumptions, Nash bargaining … exceed the wage reward. This paper reviews the established empirical regularities and then provides Nash bargaining results …
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bargaining with claims environment. We measure people's judgments on the normative attractiveness of solution concepts with the … help of a survey and also observe actual agreements in a bargaining experiment with real money at stake. We find that the …
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We study experimentally the effect of bargaining power in two sequential mechanisms that offer the possibility to trade … at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price … effects of bargaining power on aggregate outcomes. There is, however, substantial heterogeneity within sellers. Sellers who …
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Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
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